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Biotech / Medical : PLC Systems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (840)	5/4/1998 6:54:00 AM
From: Dan Hughes	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1202

JF I thought the only company that was using a holmium was Helionetics, which is really out of the picture. CO2 lasers generate so much heat within the beam so PLC has some inherent advantages as well as inherent disadvantages. I'm not sure what Cardiogenesis uses, which also has timed pulses to coincide with the hearts beating. I asked a surgeon who was one of Cardiogenesis' clinical sights why he chose them and the answer was size and cost. Eclipse, I belive uses an excimer laser which needs no timing but does require multiple pulses, all of which occur in a millisecond. Dan