医療工学としてのレーザー医学の現状と県や工学部との接点

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The recent status of laser medicine is characterized as a medical technology. The application of laser technology in medicine has circulated throughout the world, especially, as a laser scalpel in surgery, as instruments for diagnosis and/or treatment of eyes, and as treatment tools in dermatology and plastic surgery. On the other hand, laser light is used for the photodynamic diagnosis (PDD) and treatment (PDT) of cancer with a photosensitizer (protoporphyrin-IX), which is produced from 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA), a precursor of the P_P-IX. We studied the red fluorescence analysis (FDD) of P_P-IX incorporated into the cancer tissue and the red light beam was irradiated onto the cancer tissue for PDT. Thus, 5-ALA would seem to be the next generation drug as a photosensitizer of the PDD and PDT. A new compact laser system which utilizes two wavelengths (blue and red) for PDD and PDT in real time will be developed through collaboration with the Venture Business Laboratory in the faculty of engineering at our university and with the Center of Industrial Technology of the Fukui prefectural government.
福井大学の論文
2004-12-17