scholarly journals In Vitro Laser Ablation of Natural Marine Biofilms

2004 ◽  
Vol 70 (11) ◽  
pp. 6905-6908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanavillil Nandakumar ◽  
Hideki Obika ◽  
Akihiro Utsumi ◽  
Toshihiko Ooie ◽  
Tetsuo Yano

ABSTRACT We studied the efficiency of pulsed low-power laser irradiation of 532 nm from an Nd:YAG (neodymium-doped yttrium-aluminum-garnet) laser to remove marine biofilm developed on titanium and glass coupons. Natural biofilms with thicknesses of 79.4 � 27.8 μm (titanium) and 107.4 � 28.5 μm (glass) were completely disrupted by 30 s of laser irradiation (fluence, 0.1 J/cm2). Laser irradiation significantly reduced the number of diatoms and bacteria in the biofilm (paired t test; P < 0.05). The removal was better on titanium than on glass coupons.

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 662-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleftherios-Terry R. Farmakis ◽  
Konstantinos Kozyrakis ◽  
Marouan G. Khabbaz ◽  
Ulrich Schoop ◽  
Franziska Beer ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 103 (11) ◽  
pp. 3542-3552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woan‐Ruoh Lee ◽  
Shing‐Chuan Shen ◽  
Ibrahim A. Aljuffali ◽  
Yi‐Ching Li ◽  
Jia‐You Fang

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 597-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Assi Levi ◽  
Dan Ben Amitai ◽  
Daniel Mimouni ◽  
Yael A. Leshem ◽  
Ofir Arzi ◽  
...  

1985 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatsuhito Yamagami ◽  
Hajime Handa ◽  
Nobuo Hashimoto ◽  
Waro Taki ◽  
Yasuhiro Yonekawa ◽  
...  

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