Helium atmospheric pressure plasma jet: Diagnostics and application for burned wounds healing

Abstract

A new field of plasma applications developed in the last years, entitled plasma medicine, has focused the attention of many peoples from plasma -community on biology and medicine. Subjects that involve plasma physics and technology (e.g. living tissue treatment or wound healing, cancer cell apoptosis, blood coagulation, sterilization and decontamination) are nowadays in study in many laboratories. In this paper we present results on optical and electrical diagnosis of a helium -atmospheric pressure plasma jet designed for medical use. This type of plasma jet was used for improvement of the wound healing process. We observed a more rapid macroscopic healing of the plasma treated wounds in comparison with the control group. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.