E Stoffels

“Tissue Processing” with Atmospheric Plasmas

Contribution to Plasma Physics 47 (2007) 40-48

This article surveys current applications of gas discharges in various medical procedures. Various designs of non-equilibrium plasma sources are described, with special attention to cold plasma devices. In “tissue processing”, two approaches are distinguished: thermal processing, such as heat-induced coagulation, desiccation, cutting and ablation, and non-thermal processing, based on sub-lethal plasma effects on living cells. The latter technique requires special low-power sources, which operate at the body temperature.

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