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"Sam Wormley" |
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22 Mar 2006 03:29:59 PM |
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Incoherent boost for light surgery |
Incoherent boost for light surgery
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/3/16/1
22 March 2006
A group of Israeli researchers have shown how to carry out surgery
using a non-coherent light source. The device could provide a cheaper
and safer alternative to conventional laser surgery (Appl. Phys. Lett.
88 114104).
Laser light can be used to perform a number of medical procedures, such
as removing cancerous tissue. The beam is fed into an optical fibre and
through a catheter, heating the millimetre- or centimetre-sized growths
to death. However, the technique is expensive and therefore not that
widely used.
See: http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/3/16/1
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| User: "Ian Stirling" |
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| Title: Re: Incoherent boost for light surgery |
22 Mar 2006 04:29:46 PM |
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Sam Wormley <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote:
Incoherent boost for light surgery
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/3/16/1
22 March 2006
A group of Israeli researchers have shown how to carry out surgery
using a non-coherent light source. The device could provide a cheaper
and safer alternative to conventional laser surgery (Appl. Phys. Lett.
88 114104).
Yawn.
http://www.aip.org/png/2002/163.htm
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| User: "tadchem" |
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| Title: Re: Incoherent boost for light surgery |
22 Mar 2006 09:02:23 PM |
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Ian Stirling wrote:
Sam Wormley <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote:
Incoherent boost for light surgery
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/3/16/1
22 March 2006
A group of Israeli researchers have shown how to carry out surgery
using a non-coherent light source. The device could provide a cheaper
and safer alternative to conventional laser surgery (Appl. Phys. Lett.
88 114104).
Yawn.
http://www.aip.org/png/2002/163.htm
The 2006 article cited by Sam Wormley mentions the 2002 work of Gordon
and colleagues as 'prior art.'
The innovation being reported is not the use of non-coherent light in
surgery itself, but the fact that the light can now be produced for
this purpose by arc-discharge lamps (presumably even at night) and is
no longer dependent on the availability of sunlight.
Learn to read a little faster and you might get further into the
article before you get bored.
Tom Davidson
Richmond, VA
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