In-vitro investigation on fragmentation/dusting and fluorescence during Ho:YAG-Laser induced lithotripsy (Conference Presentation)

Ronald Sroka; Thomas Pongratz; Frank Strittmatter; Maximilian Eisel; Stephan Ströbl

doi:10.1117/12.2291892

14 March 2018 In-vitro investigation on fragmentation/dusting and fluorescence during Ho:YAG-Laser induced lithotripsy (Conference Presentation)

Ronald Sroka, Thomas Pongratz, Frank Strittmatter, Maximilian Eisel, Stephan Ströbl

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Proceedings Volume 10468, Therapeutics and Diagnostics in Urology 2018; 1046807 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2291892
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Laser lithotripsy is the preferred application for the destruction of ureteral and kidney stones. Clinically Ho:YAG lasers (λ=2.1µm) are used due to high absorption by water to induce thermomechanical ablation. This study focussed on the investigation of different laser parameters in relation to the stone destruction efficiency. Experiments were performed using clinical available Ho:YAG laser energy transferred via a standard fibre (Ø: 365µm) onto phantom calculi (Bego-Stones of different hardness) in an aquarium set-up. Dusting can be reached most efficient by using low energy/pulse (approx. 0.5J/pulse) and repetition rate of around 40 Hz. Higher energy/pulse showed strong repulsion and thereby increased mobility, while using lower repetition rates result in longer ablation times. For hard calculi the ablation process takes a much longer time compared to soft stones. In addition the fluorescence of human urinary stones was investigated in-vitro as well as in-vivo. In-vitro investigations (n=30) were performed using fluorescence spectrometer and fluorescence microscopy techniques. Urinary stones show broad band fluorescence emission. Inhomogeneous local fluorescence sites and homogeneous surface fluorescence can be distinguished. The shell-like structure of the stones showed difference fluorescence behavior. The impact of fluorescence guidance during endoscopic laser lithotripsy will be discussed.

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Ronald Sroka, Thomas Pongratz, Frank Strittmatter, Maximilian Eisel, and Stephan Ströbl "In-vitro investigation on fragmentation/dusting and fluorescence during Ho:YAG-Laser induced lithotripsy (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10468, Therapeutics and Diagnostics in Urology 2018, 1046807 (14 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2291892

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Luminescence

In vitro testing

Laser lithotripsy

Calculi

Absorption

Fluorescence spectroscopy

In vivo imaging

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