In laser ablation of biological tissue, tomography of the tissue surface is necessary for measurement of the crater shape and the crater depth. We demonstrate here automatic in-situ observation of biological-tissue surface in laser ablation by OCT. Depth of a crater of human tooth is measured by these OCT images, and then the ablation rate of 0.21 μm/pule is determined.
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Biophotonics, 2004. APBP 2004. The Second Asian and Pacific Rim Symposium on
Date of Conference: 14-17 Dec. 2004