title: Laserthermia: a new computer-controlled contact Nd: YAG system for interstitial local hyperthermia.
abstract: Contact Nd:YAG laser surgery is assuming a greater importance in endoscopic and open surgery, allowing coagulation, cutting, and vaporization with greater precision and safety. A new contact probe allows a wider angle of irradiation and diffusion of low-power laser energy (less than 5 watts), using the interstitial technique for producing local hyperthermia. Temperature sensors that monitor continuously can be placed directly into the surrounding tissue or tumor. Using a computer program interfaced with the laser and sensors, a controlled and stable temperature (e.g., 42 degrees C) can be produced in a known volume of tissue over a prolonged period of time (e.g., 20-40 min). This new laserthermia system, using a single low-power Nd:YAG laser for interstitial local hyperthermia, may offer many new advantages in the experimental treatment and clinical management of carcinoma. A multiple system is now being developed.
authors.affiliation: Surgical Laser Technologies, Japan Co., Ltd., Tokyo.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Daikuzono
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tajiri
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tsunekawa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ohyama
authors.forename: S N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Joffe
mesh_terms: D000538:Aluminum Silicates; D000818:Animals; D004285:Dogs; D004867:Equipment Design; D006979:Hyperthermia, Induced / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D053685:Laser Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D009354:Neodymium; D009374:Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000628:therapy; D013696:Temperature; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted; D013821:Thermometers; D015019:Yttrium
chemical_list: D000538:Aluminum Silicates; D009354:Neodymium; D015019:Yttrium