US4748980A
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Application of cuts to biological material
Assignee: BASF SE
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Filing: 1987-08-04
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Granted: 1988-06-07
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Expires: 2007-08-04
Abstract
Abstract In a method for the application of cuts, perforations and/or microlesions to biological material, such as cell agglomerates, individual cells or chromosomes, by means of laser pulses fed into a microscope, the laser pulses are focussed to a cross-section which is limited by diffraction phenomena, and the nth order diffraction maxima (n=1, 2, 3, . . . ) of the laser pulses are used to apply the cuts.
Inventors
- 👤 Christoph Cremer
- 👤 Thomas Cremer
- 👤 Karl O. Greulich
- 👤 Shamci Monajembashi
- 👤 Juergen Wolfrum
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-23 12:37
CPC Classifications
C; C12; C12N; C12N13/00; B; B23; B23K; B23K26/00; B23K26/0006; B23K2103/00; B23K2103/30
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 3
Claim 1
Independent Claim
145 words
A method for the performance of microsurgery in the form of the application of cuts, perforations, and/or microlesions, to biological material, such as, for example, cell agglomerates, individual cells or chromosomes, said method comprising the steps of providing a high-magnification microscope having an objective of short focal length with diaphragm apertures, providing a tunable laser system including a high-energy pumping laser and a high-energy dye laser pumped by said pumping laser, feeding laser pulses output by the laser system into said microscope and focusing said pulses on said material through said objective so that diffraction rings are generated by said diaphragm apertures, the relative spacing of said rings corresponding to the wavelength of the laser light employed, and using the nth order diffraction maxima (n=1,2,3, . . . ) of the laser pulses for performing said microsurgery with spatial resolutions at the theoretically possible limit.
Claim 2
Independent Claim
145 words
A method for the performance of microsurgery in the form of the application of cuts, perforations, and/or microlesions, to biological material, such as, for example, cell agglomerates, individual cells or chromosomes, said method comprising the steps of providing a high-magnification microscope having an objective of short focal length with diaphragm apertures, providing a tunable laser system including a high-energy pumping laser and a high-energy dye laser pumped by said pumping laser, feeding laser pulses output by the laser system into said microscope and focusing said pulses on said material through said objective so that diffraction rings are generated by said diaphragm apertures, the relative spacing of said rings corresponding to the wavelength of the laser light employed, and using the nth order diffraction maxima (n=1,2,3, . . . ) of the laser pulses for performing said microsurgery with spatial resolutions at the theoretically possible limit.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
46 words
A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the laser pulses have a duration of from 10 -12 to 10 -3 sec and a pulse energy of up to 15·10-3 joule per pulse, and are tunable in wavelength in the range from 100 to 1500 nm.
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