WO2006091714A2 - Laser system with short pulse characteristics and its methods of use - Google Patents

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WO2006091714A2
WO2006091714A2 PCT/US2006/006369 US2006006369W WO2006091714A2 WO 2006091714 A2 WO2006091714 A2 WO 2006091714A2 US 2006006369 W US2006006369 W US 2006006369W WO 2006091714 A2 WO2006091714 A2 WO 2006091714A2
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  • This invention relates generally to laser systems, and their methods of use, that produce short and controlled pulse width trains, and more particularly to frequency doubled, cw laser systems, and their methods of use, that produce visible pulse trains of the appropriate pulselength, duty factor, and power to perform ophthalmology treatments currently being performed in the near-infrared.
  • Laser photocoagulation is the current standard of care for the treatment of certain retinal diseases such as diabetic macular edema (DME), proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR), extrafoveal, juxtafoveal and some types of subfoveal retinal neovascularization (SRNV).
  • DME diabetic macular edema
  • PDR proliferative diabetic retinopathy
  • SRNV subfoveal retinal neovascularization
  • the laser PC protocols validated by the diabetic retinopathy study (DRS), the early treatment of diabetic retinopathy study (ETDRS) and the macula photocoagulation study (MPS) all provide evidence for the beneficial use of lasers. Most of these treatments have been conducted with visible lasers (green and red lasers). All of these laser treatments are based upon obtaining a visible endpoint as the optimal tissue reaction, which becomes visible during the laser treatment. These laser pulsewidths are typically 50 to 300 milliseconds.
  • Microsecond short pulsed visible lasers have been demonstrated by Pankratov, "Pulsed delivery of laser energy in experimental thermal retinal photocoagulation", Proc. SPIE, V1202, pp. 205-213, 1990, Roider et. al., “Microphotocoagulation: Selective effects of repetitive short laser pulses", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, V90, pp 8643-8647, 1993, Roider et. al., "Retinal Sparing by Selective Retinal Pigment Epithelial Photocoagulation", Arch Ophthalmol, V117, pp1028-1034, 1999, and US patent 5,302,259 by Birngruber issued in 1994.
  • Pankratov used an acousto-optical modulator to chop a continuous wave laser with pulse trains of 0.1 to 1.0 seconds and pulsewidths from 10 to 900 microseconds. However, the longer pulsewidths with high duty cycles behaved like CW. Only the shorter pulsewidths of 10 to 50 microseconds had beneficial effects of minimal to no visible lesions. The others used Q-switched green lasers with pulsewidths of 1.7 to 5 microseconds.
  • the Q-switched lasers have been used for certain thermal confinement applications such as selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) treatment for Glaucoma and selective retinal treatment (SRT) for clinically significant diabetic macular oedema
  • SLT selective laser trabeculoplasty
  • SRT selective retinal treatment
  • CSMO retinal pigment epithelium
  • TTT Transpupillary ThermoTherapy
  • the other is a CW NIR laser with short and controlled pulse widths. It generates a pulse train of short pulses (typically 100 to 10,000 microseconds) with higher power during the pulse, but significant off time between pulses (typically 5 to 25% duty factor) - allowing the energy to be confined in a small volume using the Arrhenius principle.
  • the thermal confinement results in tissue specific photoactivation because the specific absorbing tissue, which is being heated by the pulses to temperatures above the standard photocoagulation threshold, are activated but not coagulated, since the heat can dissipate fast enough that no coagulation takes place. This tissue specific photoactivation (or TSP) allows significant treatment without causing full thickness retinal damage and the associated vision loss.
  • the new MIP treatments heat the tissue and initiate some signal carrier cells, which initiate a healing response and this healing response ameliorates the disease being treated without coagulating any of the retinal layers and without the associated vision loss. Hence, activating the healing response without coagulating tissue and thus losing vision is a better treatment method.
  • Physicians have not used green lasers for long sub-threshold treatments (like TTT) because of concerns regarding retinal phototoxicity. They have not used green lasers for pulse trains of short pulses, because current green lasers are unable to deliver similar pulse-width trains as those provided by the above referenced NIR laser with short and controlled pulse widths.
  • current green lasers employ a fast photodetector or photosensor to sense the output power level of the laser cavity.
  • a software control light loop measures laser output on the millisecond time scale, and increases or decreases the requested energy by increasing or decreasing the requested drive current to the pump diode. This allows a relatively stable laser output, within a few percent, over long time periods such as pulses of tens to hundreds or even thousands of milliseconds.
  • a hardware light spike safety protection design has been used. This is an analog circuit that can respond to light energy changes in the microsecond regime. This is used to provide safety against a high power light spike, if some failure or current spike occurs. This protects the patient from spikes being delivered through the delivery system.
  • the hardware light loop threshold is generally set at 10 to 20% above the desired energy level, since it is a safety factor.
  • the software light loop is not able to respond to these quick changes and only make the fluctuations worse by trying to respond and varying the requested power. There is a need to provide a system, and its methods of use, that can respond to these quick changes without making the fluctuations worse.
  • an object of the present invention is to provide an improved system, and its methods of use, that produces short and controlled pulse width trains.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a frequency doubled, cw laser system that produces short and controlled pulse width trains, and its methods of use, with reduced mode hops.
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide a frequency doubled, cw laser system that produces short and controlled pulse width trains, and its methods of use, with reduced power fluctuations.
  • Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a frequency doubled, cw laser system that produces short and controlled pulse width trains, and its methods of use, with power fluctuations less than 10%.
  • Still a further object of the present invention is to provide a frequency doubled, cw laser system, and its methods of use, that produces visible pulse trains of the appropriate pulselength, duty factor, and power to perform ophthalmology treatments currently being performed in the near-infrared.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a frequency doubled, cw laser system, and its methods of use, that deliver pulse rise times as short as 25 microseconds, pulselengths in the 25 microseconds to 10 milliseconds range, and pulse trains of these pulses for hundreds of pulses.
  • Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a frequency doubled, cw laser system, and its methods of use, suitable for treatment of the retina with a pulse train of visible pulses to cause change without coagulating the neurosensory elements of the retina.
  • a laser system that includes a diode pump source.
  • a frequency doubled solid state visible laser is pumped by the diode pump source and produces a pulsed laser output with a train of pulses.
  • Resources provide instructions for the creation of the pulsed output, with on and off times that provide for substantial confinement of thermal effects at a target site.
  • a method of treatment provides a diode pumped, frequency doubled solid state laser system.
  • the solid state laser system produces a pulsed output that has a train of pulses with on times optimized for confinement of thermal effects.
  • a plurality of pulses is directed to a target site.
  • a temperature rise at the target site is non-additive from pulse to pulse.
  • a method for treating biological tissue by laser surgery.
  • a frequency doubled solid state visible laser system is provided that has a frequency doubler. Instructions are provided to the laser system to create a pulsed output that has a train of pulses with on and off times that substantially confine thermal effects.
  • a pulsed output is produced and directed to a target site.
  • a laser treatment system includes a diode pump source that pumps a frequency doubled solid state visible laser. The frequency double solid state visible laser produces a pulsed output.
  • a controller system is provided that is responsive to a photodetector. The controller system provides instructions to the visible laser to create the pulsed output. The pulsed output has a train of pulses with on and off times that substantially confine thermal effects.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of one embodiment of a frequency doubled, cw laser system of the present invention.
  • a laser system 10 includes a diode pump source 12.
  • a frequency doubled solid state visible laser 14 is pumped by the diode pump source 12 and produces a pulsed output 16 with a train of pulses.
  • Resources 18 provide instructions for the creation of the pulsed output, with on and off times that provide for substantial confinement of thermal effects at a target site.
  • An off time of the train of pulses is of sufficient duration to provide that the target site has sufficient time to cool down from the delivery of a previous pulse before a next pulse is delivered to the target site 40 by the delivery system 50.
  • the instructions can include the following steps, set a starting current for the diode pump source 12, set a target power from the laser system 10, and trigger the diode pump source 12 to start.
  • the resources 18 are configured to provide repetitive pulses at one target site.
  • the resources 18 includes hardware and software components that work together to reduce uncertainty and fluctuation of energy down to the few percent range.
  • the resources 18 includes a feedback control system 20 which can include a controller 22 that is responsive to a device including but not limited to a photodetector 24.
  • This feedback control system 20 has a software light loop as part of the controller 22 and a hardware light loop 26.
  • the controller 22 produces a control signal used to adjust the pulsed output 16.
  • the feedback control system 20 monitors the laser light delivered to the target site 40, and the pulsed output 16 is modified in response to the monitoring.
  • the train of pulses is optimized to confine the thermal effects of a target tissue 40 in a medical treatment.
  • the controller 22 includes a processor that compares a signal, such as from the photodetector 24, to a target power and uses this comparison to determine the on and off times.
  • the controller 22 can include a high speed circuit and/or a processor, that compares the signal, such as the signal from the photodetector 24, to a target power, and uses this comparison to determine the on and off time of each pulse.
  • the visible laser 14 has a gain medium 32.
  • the gain medium 32 can be made of a variety of materials, including but not limited to, Nd:YAG, Nd:YVO4, Nd:YLF, Ho:YAG, EnYAG, Yb:YAG, Yb:YVO4, and the like.
  • the visible laser 14 also contains a frequency converter 34.
  • this frequency converter 34 can be made of a variety of materials, including but not limited to, KTP, LBO, BBO, and the like.
  • the train of pulses has a thermal relaxation time less than a thermal relaxation time of the target site. In one embodiment of the present invention, the train of pulses have a pulse width that is less than 10 milliseconds. In another embodiment of the present invention, the train of pulses has pulses greater than 25 microseconds. In one specific embodiment, the train of pulses is optimized to confine the thermal effect to the RPE without affecting the neurosensory retina of the eye. In one embodiment, the pulsed output 16 has a wavelength in the visible range suitable for a diode pumped solid state laser. The pulsed output 16 can have a pulse on time of 25 microseconds to 10,000 microseconds, a pulse off time of 75 to 100,000 microseconds, and the like.
  • each pulse length is controlled in the microsecond regime.
  • the turn-on time of laser system 10 is less than 1 to 10 milliseconds.
  • the resources 18 with this new hardware/software combination light loop, the turn-on time can be decreased to 25 microseconds.
  • the turn-off time is even shorter than the turn-on time.
  • the control of total on-time can be implemented with a timer chip included with the resources, with sub-microsecond accuracy to time the pulse length and shut off the pulse at the appropriate time.
  • micropulses of 25 up to 10,000 microseconds are provided by laser system 10 with power levels of up to 3W.
  • pulse trains of up to 500 of these pulses with a variable duty factor from 5% to 25% are provided.
  • laser system 10 is utilized for a variety of different methods of treatment, particularly medical treatments.
  • Suitable target, treatment sites 40 include but are not limited to, RPE, capsulelochoris and choroids of the eye, and the like.
  • laser system produces the pulsed output 16 with a train of pulses that have on times optimized for confinement of thermal effects to sites adjacent to the target site 40.
  • a plurality of pulses is directed to the target site 40.
  • a temperature rise at the target site 40 is non-additive from pulse to pulse.
  • the target site 40 can have an area of about 50 microns to 3 mm.
  • the pulsed output has a wavelength range in the visible, and the pulsed output 16 can have a wavelength range of 520 to 615 nm.
  • the resources 18 have a hardware light loop threshold set at 3 to
  • the requested light level is set to maximum and held there until the laser power reaches the desired level. This generates the fastest possible rise time.
  • the resources 18 hold the power just above the desired level.
  • the resources 18 then ramps the requested power level down until the laser power is equal to or below the desired level. If it is equal to or below the desired level, it steps back up slowly. If it is above, it steps down slowly.
  • the resources 18 make a new measurement before each decision to raise or lower the requested level.
  • the resources 18 requested level is close to the proper level and the combination of hardware and software keep the light within 3 to 5% as long as the pulse is on.
  • the end result is a very fast turn on and stable light level throughout the entire pulse for each pulse of the pulsed output 16.
  • the resources 18 makes a measurement before each decision to raise or lower the requested level, it can only be off of the correct level by one DAC number.
  • the pulse energy stability for short pulses is improved.
  • laser system 10 is utilized to treat RPE, capsulelochoris and choroids of the eye.
  • Pulsed output 16 is directed to target site 40 of the eye and a temperature rise at the target site is non-additive from pulse to pulse.
  • the target site 40 is an area of 50 microns to 3 mm.
  • the pulsed output 16 has a wavelength range of 520 to 615 nm.
  • the pulsed output 16 has a pulse on time of 25 microseconds to 10,000 microseconds, and a pulse off time of 750 to 10,000 microseconds.
  • laser system 10 is utilized to treat RPE, capsulelochoris and choroids of the eye.
  • the pulsed output 16 is directed to a target site of the eye and a temperature rise at the target site is non-additive from pulse to pulse.
  • the target site 40 is an area of 50 microns to 3 mm.
  • the controller 22 has a high speed circuit that compares a signal from the photodetector 24, to a target power, and uses this comparison to determine the on and off time of each pulse.
  • the signal from photodetector 24 is compared to a target power to determine the on and off times.
  • the pulsed output 16 has a wavelength range of 520 to 615 nm.
  • the pulsed output 16 has a pulse on time of 25 microseconds to 10,000 microseconds, and a pulse off time of 750 to 10,000 microseconds.
  • laser system 10 is utilized to treat RPE, capsulelochoris and choroids of the eye.
  • the pulsed output 16 is directed to a target site of the eye and a temperature rise at the target site is non-additive from pulse to pulse.
  • the target site 40 is an area of 50 microns to 3 mm.
  • the train of pulses 16 is optimized to confine the thermal effect to the RPE target site without affecting the neurosensory retina of the eye.
  • An off time of the train of pulses is of sufficient duration to provide that the RPE target site has sufficient time to cool down from a delivery of a previous pulse before a next pulse is delivered to the RPE target site.
  • the pulsed output 16 has a wavelength range of 520 to 615 nm.
  • the pulsed output 16 has a pulse on time of 25 microseconds to 10,000 microseconds, and a pulse off time of 750 to 10,000 microseconds.

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