Diseases of the blood vessel anomaly group can now be treated by a number of lasers, including the pulsed dye laser. Blood vessels have a variety of diameters, which will in turn affect the result of laser haemocoagulation. We have designed a computer simulation which can calculate the temperature rise in target vessels dependent on the diameter of the vessel. Seven simulations have been carried out, based on the following parameters: exposure time, 400 usec; energy density, 5J/cm
2; and the inner diameter of the blood vessels ranging from 10um-640um. For vessels of 10um in diameter, the maximum temperature rise was 2.36°K. For vessels of 640um in diameter, the maximum rise was 18.3°K. We also calculated the time for the temperature to fall by half (temperature half fall time). It was 0.92ms and 225ms for 10um and 640um vessels, respectively. From these data it is easy to infer that the greater efficacy of the dye laser in the treatment of smaller diameter vessels compared to those of a larger diameter is the low temperature rise and shorter duration in the smaller diameter vessels.
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