Coherent light small-angle scattering as applied to monitor the thermal denaturation of collagen tissue

Thermal modification of collagenous tissue (e.g. cartilage) used for its reshaping is a modern approach in laser medicine. The necessity to provide conditions for proper tissue modification and to avoid the dramatic changes in tissue structure due to collagen denaturation requires to provide the real-time monitoring of the process. One of the possibilities for such monitoring procedure is related to the analysis of the dynamic scattering of a probe coherent light by treated tissue. In this work we studied some peculiarities of the small-angle dynamic scattering of probe laser light by thermally treated collagenous tissues.

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