ArticleLasers in surgery and medicine2017
Computer simulations of thermal tissue remodeling during transvaginal and transurethral laser treatment of female stress urinary incontinence.
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- Exploring the role of laser therapy for stress urinary incontinence: a literature review.Lasers in medical science · 2025Pooled it
- A new approach to treatment of stress urinary incontinence using non-ablative transurethral laser.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Finite element modeling in obstetrics and gynecology: advances, applications, and challenges.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Review
- Dual-sectored transurethral ultrasound for thermal treatment of stress urinary incontinence: in silico studies in 3D anatomical models.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2020Article
- A computational analysis of the effect of supporting organs on predicted vesical pressure in stress urinary incontinence.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2020Article
- The Rationale for Photobiomodulation Therapy of Vaginal Tissue for Treatment of Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause: An Analysis of Its Mechanism of Action, and Current Clinical Outcomes.Photobiomodulation, photomedicine, and laser surgery · 2019Review
- 1.7 micron optical coherence tomography for vaginal tissue characterization in vivo.Lasers in surgery and medicine · 2019Article
- Transurethral high-intensity ultrasound for treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI): simulation studies with patient-specific models.International journal of hyperthermia : the official journal of European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology, North American Hyperthermia Group · 2018Article
- LASER PROBE WITH INTEGRATED CONTACT COOLING FOR SUBSURFACE TISSUE THERMAL REMODELING.Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences. Mississippi Academy of Sciences · 2018Article
- Optical clearing of vaginal tissues, ex vivo, for minimally invasive laser treatment of female stress urinary incontinence.Journal of biomedical optics · 2017Article
- Optical Clearing of Vaginal Tissues in Cadavers.Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical EngineeringArticle
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
objectivesA non-surgical method is being developed for treating female stress urinary incontinence by laser thermal remodeling of subsurface tissues with applied surface tissue cooling. Computer simulations of light transport, heat transfer, and thermal damage in tissue were performed, comparing transvaginal and transurethral approaches. STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND
methodsMonte Carlo (MC) simulations provided spatial distributions of absorbed photons in the tissue layers (vaginal wall, endopelvic fascia, and urethral wall). Optical properties (n,μ
resultsFor the transvaginal approach, 37% of energy was absorbed in the endopelvic fascia target layer with 0.8% deposited beyond it. Peak temperature was 71°C, the treatment zone was 0.8-mm-diameter, and 2.4 mm of the 2.7-mm-thick vaginal wall was preserved. For transurethral approach, 18% energy was absorbed in endopelvic fascia with 0.3% deposited beyond the layer. Peak temperature was 80°C, treatment zone was 2.0-mm-diameter, and 0.6 mm of 2.4-mm-thick urethral wall was preserved.
conclusionsComputer simulations suggest that transvaginal approach is more feasible than transurethral approach. Lasers Surg. Med. 49:198-205, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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