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ArticleScientific reports2022

Ultrafast laser surgery probe for sub-surface ablation to enable biomaterial injection in vocal folds.

Liam Andrus, Hamin Jeon, Michal Pawlowski, Benoit Debord, Frederic Gerome, Fetah Benabid, Ted Mau, Tomasz Tkaczyk, Adela Ben-Yakar

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Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Liam AndrusDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
Hamin JeonDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
Michal PawlowskiDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
Benoit DebordGPPMM Group, XLIM, CNRS-University of Limoges, Limoges, France.
Frederic GeromeGPPMM Group, XLIM, CNRS-University of Limoges, Limoges, France.
Fetah BenabidGPPMM Group, XLIM, CNRS-University of Limoges, Limoges, France.
Ted MauDepartment of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, 75390, USA.
Tomasz TkaczykDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, 77005, USA.
Adela Ben-YakarDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA. ben-yakar@mail.utexas.edu.
Rice University · USXLIM · FRThe University of Texas at Austin · USThe University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

Ultrafast Laser Phonosurgery for Biomaterial Localization in Scarred Vocal FoldsR01DC014783 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN · PI BEN-YAKAR, ADELA · 2016 to 2020
$2.3M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC014783
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Creation of sub-epithelial voids within scarred vocal folds via ultrafast laser ablation may help in localization of injectable therapeutic biomaterials towards an improved treatment for vocal fold scarring. Several ultrafast laser surgery probes have been developed for precise ablation of surface tissues; however, these probes lack the tight beam focusing required for sub-surface ablation in highly scattering tissues such as vocal folds. Here, we present a miniaturized ultrafast laser surgery probe designed to perform sub-epithelial ablation in vocal folds. The requirement of high numerical aperture for sub-surface ablation, in addition to the small form factor and side-firing architecture required for clinical use, made for a challenging optical design. An Inhibited Coupling guiding Kagome hollow core photonic crystal fiber delivered micro-Joule level ultrashort pulses from a high repetition rate fiber laser towards a custom-built miniaturized objective, producing a 1/e

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Laser TherapyVocal CordsAnimalsBiocompatible MaterialsCicatrixInjectionsSwineBiocompatible Materials

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PMID36446830
PMCPMC9708667
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