Orthopaedic surgical platform which uses burst-mode ultrafast laser pulses delivered by high-power fiber-optic catheter for less-invasive surgery with ultrafine control

我们希望使一种新的激光手术途径成为可能：由下一代提供的“突发模式”超短脉冲激光脉冲 光纤工具--手术只需一个小切口，激光手术刀的精细控制， 好的和坏的加热。这将是一个理想的新工具，在微创手术的趋势，利用自然开口， 身体（自然腔道经腔内窥镜手术（'NOTES'））。激光已经提供了烧灼、切割或 但在工程和制造业中的现代应用比以前广泛得多，也更复杂 出现在医学超快激光脉冲已经具有巨大的医疗和商业影响，例如，取代专业 在LASIK视力矫正手术中打开角膜的手术刀。然而，并非所有的激光器都是一样的，它们必须是 特别适用于需要手术的组织的特性：骨、角膜、软骨等。 我们希望从全新的可能性中汲取灵感，为关节手术开发一种精致的超短脉冲激光， 它通过一种新型的光纤传递“机关枪般的脉冲”， 控制：更轻柔的切割，更快的切割，更好的切割深度控制，更谨慎的疼痛管理和更好的切割效果。 更大范围的管理对手术部位邻近组织的好与坏的影响，减少不必要的 伤害，同时提高治愈能力。

We want to make possible a new avenue of laser surgery: 'burst mode' ultrashort-pulse laser pulses delivered by nextgeneration fiber-optic tools -- surgery with only a small incision, very fine control of a laser scalpel, and complete control of good and bad heating. This would be an ideal new tool in the trend of minimally invasive surgery using natural openings in the body (natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery ('NOTES')). Lasers already offer surgical tools that cauterize, cut or scrape, but modern applications in engineering and in manufacturing are far wider and more sophisticated than has yet appeared in medicine. Ultrafast laser pulses already have a huge medical and commercial impact, e.g., replacing specialized scalpels that open the cornea in LASIK vision-correction surgery. However, not all lasers are the same, and they have to be adapted specifically for the properties of the tissue needing surgery: bone, cornea, cartilage, etc. We want to draw from the pool of brand-new possibilities, to develop for joint surgery a refined kind of very short pulse laser, which delivers 'machine-gun bursts' of pulses, delivered over a new class of optical-fibers, to give a new kind of subtle control: more gentle cutting, faster cutting, better control of depth of cutting, more deliberate management of pain and a wider range of management of the good and bad impact on tissue adjacent to the surgical site, to reduce unnecessary damage while at the same time improving healing.