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Acoustic differentiation of dental soft- And hard tissues using remote speckle-analysis during Er:YAG ablation

  • Benjamin Lengenfelder
  • , Karen Schwarzkopf
  • , Nicolai Oetter
  • , Fanuel Mehari
  • , Eric Eschner
  • , Florian Klämpfl
  • , Florian Stelzle
  • , Marco Kesting
  • , Zeev Zalevsky
  • , Michael Schmidt
  • Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg

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Abstract

The Er:YAG laser has gained significant interest in the field of oral surgery due to its high water absorptivity, precision and patient acceptance. However, its application is limited by the lack of a contact-free feedback system which would enable safe laser guidance. In this work, a potential new, robust feedback modality based on speckle-analysis is presented which detects the acoustic signals produced during laser surgery. Oral soft- and hard tissue samples are investigated ex-vivo for its differentiation capability using the speckle modality. This technique might help to broaden the clinical application of Er:YAG lasers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEuropean Conference on Biomedical Optics, ECBO_2019
PublisherOptica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)
ISBN (Print)9781510628397
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
EventEuropean Conference on Biomedical Optics, ECBO_2019 - Munich, Netherlands
Duration: 23 Jun 201925 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameOptics InfoBase Conference Papers
VolumePart F142-ECBO 2019
ISSN (Electronic)2162-2701

Conference

ConferenceEuropean Conference on Biomedical Optics, ECBO_2019
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityMunich
Period23/06/1925/06/19

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© SPIE-OSA 2019.

Funding

The authors gratefully acknowledge funding of the Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT) by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in the framework of the German excellence initiative.

Funders
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
Erlangen Graduate School of Advanced Optical Technologies

    Keywords

    • Er:YAG laser
    • Laser surgery
    • Tissue differentiation

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