Hydrodynamic modeling of tissue ablation with a free-electron laser

Stephen R. Uhlhorn; Richard A. London; Anthony J. Makarewicz; E. Duco Jansen

doi:10.1117/12.388050

13 June 2000 Hydrodynamic modeling of tissue ablation with a free-electron laser

Stephen R. Uhlhorn, Richard A. London, Anthony J. Makarewicz, E. Duco Jansen

Proceedings Volume 3914, Laser-Tissue Interaction XI: Photochemical, Photothermal, and Photomechanical; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.388050
Event: BiOS 2000 The International Symposium on Biomedical Optics, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The Vanderbilt University free-electron laser (FEL) provides a continuously tunable ((lambda) equals 2 - 10 micrometer) source of pulsed IR radiation with a pulse structure unlike those of conventional lasers (a macropulse of 5 microseconds consisting of a train of 1 ps micropulses at a frequency of 3 GHz). A numerical hydrodynamic code at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, known as LASTIS3D, was used to model the ablation of tissue using the FEL. This study investigates the role of the FEL pulse structure by comparing the results from simulations using a time-averaged energy deposition and a pulsetrain energy deposition.

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Stephen R. Uhlhorn, Richard A. London, Anthony J. Makarewicz, and E. Duco Jansen "Hydrodynamic modeling of tissue ablation with a free-electron laser", Proc. SPIE 3914, Laser-Tissue Interaction XI: Photochemical, Photothermal, and Photomechanical, (13 June 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.388050

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