Title :
Image‐guided ultrafast laser scalpel for precise and minimally invasive surgery
Author :
Ben-Yakar, Adela
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Abstract :
Ultrafast laser microsurgery will be the preferred laser scalpel of surgeons in the future as they enable the most precise cutting tool. Towards enabling its clinical use, we are developing flexible fiber-coupled, MEMS-based microscopes with nonlinear imaging.
Keywords :
bioMEMS; biomedical optical imaging; endoscopes; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser applications in medicine; optical microscopy; surgery; cutting tool; flexible fiber-coupled MEMS-based microscopy; image-guided ultrafast laser scalpel; minimally invasive surgery; nonlinear imaging; surgeons; ultrafast laser microsurgery; Laser ablation; Microsurgery; Optical imaging; Probes; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
