Towards OCT-guided endoscopic laser surgery—a review

A Gunalan, LS Mattos - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is an optical imaging technology occupying a unique
position in the resolution vs. imaging depth spectrum. It is already well established in the …

Smart laser osteotomy: integrating a pulsed 1064nm fiber laser into the sample arm of a fiber optic 1310nm OCT system for ablation monitoring

J Jivraj, C Chen, Y Huang, J Ramjist, Y Lu… - Biomedical optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Real-time depth metrology during material removal via laser ablation is useful in many forms
of laser machining. Until now, coaxial optical coherence tomography (OCT) metrology was …

An intelligent theranostics method using optical coherence tomography guided automatic laser ablation for neurosurgery

W Chang, Y Fan, X Zhang… - 2018 40th Annual …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Methods to reduce the high disability and fatality rate of neurosurgery caused by surgeon
tremor and uncertainty of intraoperative tumor boundary have long been greatly concerned …

Optical coherence tomography for dynamic axial correction of an optical end-effector for robot-guided surgical laser ablation

J Jivraj, C Chen, D Barrows, VXD Yang - Optical Engineering, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Robot-guided laser ablation for surgical applications potentially offers many advantages
compared to by-hand mechanical tissue cutting. However, given that tissue can be rough …

Computational Sensing for ISM & OCT Guided Laser Microsurgery

A Gunalan - 2024 - tesidottorato.depositolegale.it
Lasers surgery offers precision and fewer complications, but challenges include controlling
ablation depth and identifying tumor edges. Intraoperative imaging, especially optical laser …

A novel OCT image-guided laser automatic ablation method based on non-common optical path structure

C Hu, W Chang, Y Li, Y Fan, X Zhang, H Kang… - 11th Asian-Pacific …, 2021 - Springer
During tumor resection, the boundaries of some types of tumors are difficult to distinguish
with the naked eye. Doctors also face problems with tissue deformation and avoidance of …

Optimization of laser osteotomy at 1064 nm using a graphite topical absorber and a nitrogen assist gas jet

J Jivraj, C Chen, D Barrows, X Gu… - Biomedical Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Laser ablation of bone for the purposes of osteotomy is not as well understood as ablation of
homogeneous, non-biological materials such as metals and plastics. Ignition times and etch …

Tracking of buried layers during plasma-assisted femtosecond laser drilling of compound targets

IA Zhvaniya, AA Garmatina, IA Makarov… - Journal of Applied …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
It was shown that drilling of multi-layered target placed in the air by tightly focused
femtosecond laser radiation with high fluence (up to 1000 J/cm 2) can be monitored online …

[PDF][PDF] Penscriptive Depth-Controlled Robotic Laser Osteotomy

J Jivraj - 2019 - rshare.library.torontomu.ca
Bone cutting in surgery is currently done using un-intelligent tools that depend on the
proficiency of the surgeon to prevent damage to underlying critical structures. As one can …