Effect of cooling water on ablation in Er:YAG laserosteotome of hard bone

Hamed Abbasi; Lina Beltrán; Georg Rauter; Raphael Guzman; Philippe C. Cattin; Azhar Zam

doi:10.1117/12.2272138

22 August 2017 Effect of cooling water on ablation in Er:YAG laserosteotome of hard bone

Hamed Abbasi, Lina Beltrán, Georg Rauter, Raphael Guzman, Philippe C. Cattin, Azhar Zam

Proceedings Volume 10453, Third International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics; 104531I (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2272138
Event: Third International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics, 2017, Faro, Portugal

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine the effect of pig bone immersion in different levels of cooling water during laser ablation with a Er:YAG laser. The laser worked at 2940 nm wavelength and 10 Hz repetition rate in microseconds pulse duration regime. The bone was immersed in different levels of cooling water in a sample container for preventing carbonization. The bone samples were ablated with fixed deposited energy to investigate at which water level Er:YAG lasers start ablating bone through a layer of water. Results showed that the maximum level of water that laser can pass through to start the ablation nonlinearly depends on pulse energy.

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Hamed Abbasi, Lina Beltrán, Georg Rauter, Raphael Guzman, Philippe C. Cattin, and Azhar Zam "Effect of cooling water on ablation in Er:YAG laserosteotome of hard bone", Proc. SPIE 10453, Third International Conference on Applications of Optics and Photonics, 104531I (22 August 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2272138

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