Assessing the risk of skin damage due to femtosecond laser irradiation
Assessing the risk of skin damage due to femtosecond laser irradiation
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DOI:
10.1002/jbio.200810050
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发表时间:
2008-12-01
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2.8
通讯作者:
Wepf, Roger
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作者:
Fischer, Frank;Volkiner, Beate;Wepf, Roger
We irradiated freshly excised skin biopsies with four irradiation regimes usually taken for multiphoton imaging. If there is any skin damaging, it is mainly an effect similar to the damaging effects of UV-irradiation. Using fluorescent antibodies against cyclobutane-pyrimidin-dimers (CPDs) in combination with immuno-fluorescence image analysis we quantitatively compared fs-irradiation effects with UV-irradiation (solar simulator). Based on these results we are giving a risk assessment. The results show that multi photon imaging using the parameters described here is in the ballpark of damaging occurring from every day sun exposure.Human epidermis stained with an antibody against cyclobutane-pyrimidin-dimer (CPD). Prior to fluorescence staining with CPD antibodies the ex vivo skin sample was irradiated around the basal membrane using high power ultra short, pulsed focused NIR laser irradiation[GRAPHICS](femtosecond laser irradiation). The laser power was set much higher than usually used for imaging (in the milliwatt-range). The CPDs were built due to this high power laser irradiation most likely introducing an UV-like damaging effect in the epidermis. (c) 2008 by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim