Plasma characteristics of repetitively-pulsed electrical discharges in saline solutions used for surgical procedures

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 3 II, 2002, Pages 1376-1383

  Woloszko, Jean ^a   Stalder, Kenneth R ^b   Brown, Ian G ^c  

^a ArthroCare Corporation   (United States)

^b Stalder Technologies and Research   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breakdown in liquids; Dissociative excitation; Electrical breakdown; Electrosurgery; Plasma discharges; Plasma spectroscopy; Surgical tools

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROSURGERY; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; PLASMA DENSITY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; VAPORIZATION;

PLASMA SPECTROSCOPY;

PLASMAS;

EID: 0037252811     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.801612     Document Type: Article

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