New Source For Laser Angioplasty: Er:YAG Laser Pulses Transmitted Through Zirconium Fluoride Optical Fiber Catheters
- 21 June 1988
- proceedings article
- Published by SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
- Vol. 906, 288-296
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.945293
Abstract
Pulses from a commercial Er:YAG laser (Quantronics, Smithtown) have been transmitted through prototype commercial zirconium fluoride optical fibers (Infrared Fiber Systems, Silver Spring) to ablate atheromatous arteries in a wet field in order to evaluate the feasibility of such a system for laser angioplasty.Keywords
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