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The Devitrification Cascade -- Blast Shield Disease & Contagion
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Initiation, Progression and Transmission of Holmium Laser Blast Shield Failures My business partner has repeatedly told me not to assume that others know what I know – “Get the information out there, Stephen. Much that you take for granted is new and valuable to others.” It’s hard to know what these nuggets of value are. I am usually enlightened by a customer question, complaint or concern. That is the case for this blog post examining blast shield and fiber failures as an outbreak of disease. While the outbreak described progressed rapidly due to sharing reusable fibers between laser generators, small outbreaks may also...
All Holmium Laser Fibers are the Same, Right? Part 2: So what happened?
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So what happened? At the time IQinc was sold, in 2006, we had been making SureFlex™ for a decade since the original BlackHole™ single use design was released. SureFlex had gone through multiple generations of design improvements as described in four US patents, now owned by Boston Scientific. We'd demonstrated to a Lumenis VP that we could deliver 100W from their VersaPulse laser, through our true 200 micron fiber while in a less than a 10mm bend radius: we labeled that fiber, the LLF200TG flagship fiber, at 50W maximum Ho:YAG for routine use. Heck, in an attempt to blow the Lumenis executive away,...
UV-Purple-Blue Laser Patent Issues
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Resurrecting Urine Flow with IQ's Phoenix™ BPH Laser The US Patent Office has informed InnovaQuartz that our multi-wavelength surgical laser, that we have dubbed the Phoenix, has issued (US Pat. No. 9,220,563), precisely one year after it was filed. This laser addresses the deficiencies of other photoselective lasers – photobleaching, charring -- for minimal collateral tissue damage at wavelengths between 380 nm and 450 nm. Phoenix targets multiple tissue chromophores, tissue breakdown products and melanoidins, short-circuiting char formation. 20th CENTURY LASER SURGERY Surgical procedures for removing excess tissue blocking the male urethra (BPH) have advanced a great deal in...
What's Next in Fiber Optics for Urological Surgery?
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The fact that fiber optic technology for surgical lasers has steadily improved for two decades is largely due to InnovaQuartz' (IQ) research into fiber failure modes and strategies to overcome those weaknesses. Operating primarily in the background by providing unique solutions for established surgical laser companies, IQ has pushed back boundaries for the science of laser medicine in myriad fields, but none more authoritatively than Urological Surgery. Our patented products and proprietary technologies have blazed the path for others to follow -- We introduced the BlackHole™ High Power Connector in the 1990s and enabled GreenLight™ laser power to rise almost 5-fold starting in the late 1990s subsequently...