Lasers as tools for oncology

Laser Biomedical Research in the USSR

“…Later, similar laser operating theaters were established in other research centers in Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev. The author's laser operating unit (Lazarev et ai., 1969;Gamaleya, Lazarev, and Baratov, 1971;Kavetskii and Gamaleya, 1973) consists of three separate sections. The first section contains two pulsed Nd lasers giving radiation with a pulse energy of 1000 J and pulse duration of 2 msec, and a CW CO2 laser with output power of 50 W. The laser radiation is transmitted by a mirror-lens light guide system to the scanning device in the second section, which contains the operating theater proper (Fig.…”

“…Another laser system, devised in the author's department (Andrienko and Karpichev, 1971;Kavetskii and Gamaleya, 1973), is designed to allow rapid switching from radiation from one laser to radiation from another and also concurrent irradiation of an object by laser radiation with different wavelengths, and so on. This apparatus (Fig.…”