Skip Navigation



Human Reproduction Update Advance Access published online on April 7, 2005
Human Reproduction Update, doi:10.1093/humupd/dmi009
This Article
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow All Versions of this Article:
11/4/425    most recent
dmi009v1
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Ebner, T.
Right arrow Articles by Tews, G.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Ebner, T.
Right arrow Articles by Tews, G.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org
Received November 24, 2004
Revised January 26, 2005
Accepted January 27, 2005

Review

Possible applications of a non-contact 1.48 µm wavelength diode laser in assisted reproduction technologies

T. Ebner 1*, M. Moser 1, and G. Tews 1

1 Women's General Hospital, IVF-Unit, Lederergasse 47, A-4020 Linz, Austria


  Abstract

Recently, one laser system has been introduced in IVF fulfilling all safety requirements, while achieving a high standard of reproducibility in terms of ablation diameter. This 1.48 µm wavelength indium-gallium-arsenic-phosphorus (InGaAsP) semiconductor laser offers a variety of laser applications to the embryologist. On the one hand, zona pellucida of oocytes or embryos can be manipulated in order to facilitate ICSI or biopsy and assist hatching, and on the other, spermatozoa may be paralysed or immobilized prior to usage. To conclude, the 1.48 µm diode laser provides a promising tool for the microdissection of subcellular targets. The diode laser stands out due to the rapidity, the simplicity and the safety of the procedure which is supported by healthy offspring after laser application.

Keywords: assisted hatching; biopsy; diode laser; immobilization of spermatozoa; zona pellucida.
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Hum ReprodHome page
T. Mukaida, C. Oka, T. Goto, and K. Takahashi
Artificial shrinkage of blastocoeles using either a micro-needle or a laser pulse prior to the cooling steps of vitrification improves survival rate and pregnancy outcome of vitrified human blastocysts
Hum. Reprod., December 1, 2006; 21(12): 3246 - 3252.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]


Disclaimer: Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.