Light Properties Improvement of Light Emitting Woven Textiles with Optical Fibres for Photodynamic Therapy

Yesim Oguz, Cedric Cochrane, Vladan Koncar, Serge Mordon

2016

Abstract

For an efficient and less painful photodynamic therapy (PDT), a light emitting fabric (LEF) was woven from plastic optical fibres (POF) aiming at the treatment of dermatologic diseases such as Actinic Keratosis (AK). The traditional PDT treatments applied with external light sources deliver a non-uniform light distribution on the skin surface due to the anatomical particularity of the human body (head vertex, hand, etc.). Therefore a successful PDT obligates a homogenous and reproducible light delivery. With this purpose, plastic optical fibres (POF) have been woven in textile in order to create macro-bendings and thus emit out the injected light directly to the skin. To improve the light intensity and light emitting homogeneity of the LEF, Doehlert Experimental Design is applied. Fifteen experiments performed to analyze the response surface. Light properties of the prototypes were evaluated. The proposed models fitted well with the experimental data and enabled the optimal set up the warp yarns tensions. This study showed that RSM was a suitable tool to optimize the models of light diffusion properties.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Oguz Y., Cochrane C., Koncar V. and Mordon S. (2016). Light Properties Improvement of Light Emitting Woven Textiles with Optical Fibres for Photodynamic Therapy . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 1: PHOTOPTICS, ISBN 978-989-758-174-8, pages 146-151. DOI: 10.5220/0005743701460151

in Bibtex Style

@conference{photoptics16,
author={Yesim Oguz and Cedric Cochrane and Vladan Koncar and Serge Mordon},
title={Light Properties Improvement of Light Emitting Woven Textiles with Optical Fibres for Photodynamic Therapy},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 1: PHOTOPTICS,},
year={2016},
pages={146-151},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005743701460151},
isbn={978-989-758-174-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 1: PHOTOPTICS,
TI - Light Properties Improvement of Light Emitting Woven Textiles with Optical Fibres for Photodynamic Therapy
SN - 978-989-758-174-8
AU - Oguz Y.
AU - Cochrane C.
AU - Koncar V.
AU - Mordon S.
PY - 2016
SP - 146
EP - 151
DO - 10.5220/0005743701460151