Application of cavitation on a laser heating element in surgery

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Abstract

The article discusses the phenomenon of laser cavitation initiated at the tip of an optical fiber immersed in a liquid under the action of continuous laser radiation. The properties of flooded cumulative jets arising from the collapse of cavitation bubbles are investigated. It is shown that in free space, jets transfer heat through a liquid, and in the case of cavitation inside a tube filled with liquid, they lead to an inversion motion of the liquid. The practical use of the identified effects in medicine allows for effective surgical treatment of vascular diseases, cysts, acute and chronic infected wounds.

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M. A. Guzev

Institute for Applied Mathematics, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Author for correspondence.
Email: guzev@iam.dvo.ru
Vladivostok, Russia

V. M. Chudnovskii

V.I. Il’ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: vm53@mail.ru
Vladivostok, Russia

I. A. Abushkin

South Ural State Medical University

Email: ivanabushkin@mail.ru
Chelyabinsk, Russia

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In the print version, the article was published under the DOI: 10.31857/S0869587325080016


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