Fig. 3
From: A new approach to treatment of stress urinary incontinence using non-ablative transurethral laser
Temperature developments of ex vivo urethral tissue with BDA after 980 nm laser irradiation: (A) infrared (IR) thermal images under different laser conditions at 300 J (left image = before laser irradiation; right image = after laser irradiation; scale bar = 10 mm; N = 3). Note that the yellow solid line indicates the BDA and the white square inside the yellow line shows the active length (AL) of the BDA in the urethra (white dashed line). Comparison of temporal temperature elevations in (B) L (lumen; inside urethral tissue) and (C) EUS (external urinary sphincter; outer urethral surface) under different laser conditions (10 W for 30 s, 20 W for 15 s, and 30 W for 10 s). Note that the dashed lines represent laser off (LO) for each condition and the colored region around each line represents standard deviation.
