Active skin cooling in conjunction with laser dermatologic surgery.

JS Nelson, B Majaron, KM Kelly - Seminars in cutaneous …, 2000 - escholarship.org
The clinical objective in the laser treatment of patients with specific dermatoses is to
maximize thermal damage to the target chromophore while minimizing injury to the normal …

Transient behavior of liquid film deposition and surface heat transfer upon cryogen-spray cooling coupled with cold air jet

M Qenawy, Y Chen, J Wang, J Tian, B Li… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cryogen spray cooling (CSC) has become a promising auxiliary-cooling technique for laser
dermatology, which recently enhanced by cold air jet (CSC-CAJ). However, the CAJ-to …

Experimental investigation of spray cooling on flat and enhanced surfaces

Z Zhang, J Li, PX Jiang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2013 - Elsevier
The heat transfer during spray cooling was studied experimentally using deionized water to
investigate the effects of the spray characteristics, flat and enhanced surfaces with micro …

Theoretical and experimental analysis of droplet diameter, temperature, and evaporation rate evolution in cryogenic sprays

G Aguilar, B Majaron, W Verkruysse, Y Zhou… - International Journal of …, 2001 - Elsevier
Cryogenic sprays are used for cooling human skin during selected laser treatments in
dermatology. In order to optimize their cooling efficiency, a detailed characterization and …

Transient cooling performance of R134a flash-evaporation spray enhanced by cold air jet: A novel heat transfer enhancement method in laser dermatology

B Li, J Wang, J Tian, B Chen, H Xu, H Jia - International Journal of Heat and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nevus of Ota is a dermal hyperplastic pigmented disease with a morbidity rate of 0.1–0.6%
in the Asian population. Laser surgery with the assistance of cryogen spray cooling (CSC) is …

A novel coaxial air-R134a spray cooling for heat transfer enhancement of laser dermatology

M Qenawy, Y Chen, Y Zhu, M Ali, J Wang, J Tian… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Efficient cooling is essential in laser dermatology to prevent thermal damage, but current
methods are often hindered by thermal barrier film deposition. This study presents coaxial …

Cryogen spray cooling efficiency: Improvement of port wine stain laser therapy through multiple‐intermittent cryogen spurts and laser pulses

G Aguilar, SH Díaz, EJ Lavernia… - Lasers in Surgery and …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Objectives Cryogen spray cooling (CSC) is used to minimize the
risk of epidermal damage during laser treatment of port wine stain (PWS) birthmarks …

Dynamic behavior of cryogen spray cooling: Effects of spurt duration and spray distance

G Aguilar, GX Wang, JS Nelson - Lasers in Surgery and …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Objectives Cryogen spray cooling (CSC) is used to minimize the
risk of epidermal damage during laser dermatologic surgery. Since optimization of CSC …

Influence of nozzle‐to‐skin distance in cryogen spray cooling for dermatologic laser surgery

G Aguilar, B Majaron, K Pope… - Lasers in Surgery …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Objective Cryogen sprays are used for cooling human skin during
various laser treatments. Since characteristics of such sprays have not been completely …

Cryogen spray cooling: effects of droplet size and spray density on heat removal

BM Pikkula, JH Torres, JW Tunnell… - Lasers in Surgery and …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Objective Cryogen spray cooling (CSC) is an effective method to
reduce or eliminate non‐specific injury to the epidermis during laser treatment of various …