Selective damage of coloration centers inhomogeneously distributed in skin tissue under nanosecond near-IR laser pulses

Ludmila V. Chernyshova; Dmitrii M. Kulakov; Vladimir M. Chernyak

doi:10.1117/12.633108

26 August 2005 Selective damage of coloration centers inhomogeneously distributed in skin tissue under nanosecond near-IR laser pulses

Ludmila V. Chernyshova, Dmitrii M. Kulakov, Vladimir M. Chernyak

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Proceedings Volume 5863, Therapeutic Laser Applications and Laser-Tissue Interactions II; 58630O (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.633108
Event: European Conferences on Biomedical Optics 2005, 2005, Munich, Germany

Abstract

The results are presented on the study of the damage of melanin granules contained in ex-vivo animal skin specimens under a series of single Nd:glass laser pulses of nanosecond duration, with intensity I ~ 10⁸ W/cm². The mechanism responsible for tissue damage at the given conditions is shown to be a selective photodisruption occurring due to preferential energy absorption by endogenic skin pigment. For such a complicated multicomponent structure as biotissue comprising substructures inhomogeneously distributed in the bulk of it and differing in physical and chemical properties, such a parameter as volume energy density becomes a decisive one for tissue damage. When its magnitude reaches the damage threshold value within the absorption loci it breaks whereas the surrounding tissue remains undisturbed.

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Ludmila V. Chernyshova, Dmitrii M. Kulakov, and Vladimir M. Chernyak "Selective damage of coloration centers inhomogeneously distributed in skin tissue under nanosecond near-IR laser pulses", Proc. SPIE 5863, Therapeutic Laser Applications and Laser-Tissue Interactions II, 58630O (26 August 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.633108

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