Medical And Surgical Applications Of Fels

: Every medical laser application is based upon the compromise between efficiency and collateral adverse effects.The optimizing strategies of preclinical investigations of IR lasers can be dramatically improved by using FEL technology, allowing the free combination of wavelength, pulselength and energy. The new approach is illustrated by the results from photoablation of three different types of tissue (cornea, dental hard substances and atheromatous plaques). FEL technology enables the optimizing of physical and biological parameters and reducing risks while minimizing time and costs involved. I. INTRODUCTION Among the many laser/tissue interactions which have been introduced into microsurgery over the past 15 years, photoablation, the contact free removal of tissue is probably the most spectacular: Never before have we been able to remove tissue with a precision better than one micron, far beyond the resolution of the surgeon's naked eye. In ophthalmic microsurgery, techniques to r..