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Lasers in Wound Healing

Wound healing comparisons
Engineers at Arizona State University have created a medical material for closing wounds that, in some cases, is [MORE]

Optical “Waveguides” in Medical Devices

3D Waveguide fabrication
This from EPFL engineers in Lausanne, Switzerland: “For the first time, researchers have fabricated light-guiding structures known as [MORE]

Photoacoustic Imaging of Tumor Margins

Breast Surgery
Because breast tissue has relatively high optical contrast, laser light can penetrate deeply to find tumor margins during surgery. [MORE]

Laser Ablation of Arterial Plaque

DABRA Laser-Based Arterial Blockage Ablation System
Ra Medical (Carlsbad, CA) has introduced its laser-based arterial blockage ablation machine for clearing peripheral [MORE]

Thermophotonic Lock-In Imaging for Earlier Detection of Dental Caries

Basic Panoramic Dental X-Ray
Conventional dental x-radiographs do not have the specificity and sensitivity to detect early dental cavities, when they [MORE]

Photothermal Blade Technology for Mitochondrial Diseases

Mitochondrion
Ataxia, retinitis pigmentosa, myoclonic epilepsy, and diabetes mellitus with deafness are some of the disorders known as mitochondrial diseases. With [MORE]

Fluorescent Heme Detector

Ratiometric Sensor
Heme is a non-protein compound that is a “cofactor” in protein activity of cells, and is present in hemoglobin, [MORE]

Nanophotonics in Medical Diagnosis

To quote directly: “In the area of nano photonics, scientists [at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology in Germany] for the [MORE]

Hybrid Microscope and Mass Spec Analyzer

Microscope Spectrometer
Engineers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have built a high resolution optical microscope and mass spectrometer combination with “both [MORE]

Bloodless Testing of Glucose

Finger Glucose Sensor
The personal glucometer was a disruptive technology when it first appeared more than 40 years ago. Since then, [MORE]

Mini Robot for Prenatal Surgery

Robotic Fetal Surgery
Spina bifida results from an incomplete enclosure of the spinal cord; the spinal cord protrudes through an opening [MORE]

Laser-Enabled Breath Analysis

Breath Analysis
Breath has a physiological “fingerprint” from the small amounts of gases that are released from both healthy and diseases [MORE]

Vitamin B2 in Two Photon Polymerization for Implantable Devices

NC State 3-D Printing Riboflavin
To treat milder forms of the degenerative eye disease keratoconus ophthalmologists apply a few drops [MORE]

Device Senses Antibiotic Effectiveness

Researchers at the Ếcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have engineered a matchbox-sized device that can indicate the presence of [MORE]