Thermal damage control of dye-assisted laser tissue welding: Effects of dye concentration

Hua Xie, Lisa Buckley, Scott Pralh, Brian Shaffer, Kenton Gregory

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Abstract

Successful laser-assisted tissue welding was implemented to provide proper weld strength with minimized tissue thermal injury. We investigated and compared the weld strengths and morphologic changes in porcine small intestinal submucosa (SIS) and porcine ureteral tissues with various concentration of indocyanine green (ICG) and with a solid albumin sheet. The study showed that the tissues were welded at lower ICG concentration (0.05 mM) with minimized tissue thermal damage using an 800-nm wavelength diode laser.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)189-192
Number of pages4
JournalProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume4244
DOIs
StatePublished - 2001

Keywords

  • Albumin
  • In vitro
  • Laser soldering
  • Laser welding

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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