Trends in nanosecond melanosome microcavitation up to 1540 nm.
J Biomed Opt
; 20(9): 095011, 2015.
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ABSTRACT
Thresholds for microcavitation of bovine and porcine melanosomes were previously reported, using single nanosecond (ns) laser pulses in the visible (532 nm) and the near-infrared (NIR) from 1000 to 1319 nm. Here, we report average radiant exposure thresholds for bovine melanosome microcavitation at additional NIR wavelengths up to 1540 nm, which range from â¼0.159 J∕cm2 at 800 nm to 4.5 J∕cm2 at 1540 nm. Melanosome absorption coefficients were also estimated, and decreased with increasing wavelength. These values were compared to retinal pigment epithelium coefficients, and to water absorption, over the same wavelength range. Corneal total intraocular energy retinal damage threshold values were estimated and compared to the previous (2007) and recently changed (2014) maximum permissible exposure (MPE) safe levels. Results provide additional data that support the recent changes to the MPE levels, as well as the first microcavitation data at 1540 nm, a wavelength for which melanosome microcavitation may be an ns-pulse skin damage mechanism.
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Assunto principal:
Melanossomas
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Epitélio Pigmentado da Retina
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Lasers
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Animals
Idioma:
En
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J Biomed Opt
Ano de publicação:
2015
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Article