Research Progress and Perspective of Clinically Promising Flexible CO2 Laser Delivery Mediums (Invited)

Guangming Tao; Yuqi Zou; Chao Liu; Zhihe Ren

doi:10.3788/LOP232686

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Laser & Optoelectronics Progress
Vol. 61, Issue 1, 0117001 (2024)

Research Progress and Perspective of Clinically Promising Flexible CO₂ Laser Delivery Mediums (Invited)

Guangming Tao^{1、2、3、*}, Yuqi Zou^1、2、3, Chao Liu^1、2、3, and Zhihe Ren^1、2、3

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¹Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei , China

²Key Laboratory of Vascular Aging, Ministry of Education, Tongji Hospital Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei , China

³State Key Laboratory of Material Processing and Die & Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and;Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, Hubei , China

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Guangming Tao, Yuqi Zou, Chao Liu, Zhihe Ren. Research Progress and Perspective of Clinically Promising Flexible CO₂ Laser Delivery Mediums (Invited)[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2024, 61(1): 0117001 Copy Citation Text

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Laser-tissue interactions[28]. (a) Laser-tissue interaction mechanisms; (b) biological tissues absorption spectra and typical medical lasers in clinical surgery

Fig. 1. Laser-tissue interactions^[28]. (a) Laser-tissue interaction mechanisms; (b) biological tissues absorption spectra and typical medical lasers in clinical surgery

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Existing CO2 laser energy delivering mediums and their applications in clinical surgery[32, 82-83]

Fig. 2. Existing CO₂ laser energy delivering mediums and their applications in clinical surgery^{[32, 82-83]}

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Fig. 3. Clinical promising flexible CO₂ laser fibers fabrication strategies. (a) Hollow waveguides and their fabrication strategy; (b) polycrystalline fibers and their fabrication strategy; (c) multimaterial fibers and their fabrication strategy, P is polymer and G is glass, scale bar is 200 μm

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Fig. 4. Flexible multifunctional CO₂ laser ablation robotic fibers

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