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On the Thermal Behavior during Spatial Anisotropic Femtoseconds Laser-DNA Interaction: The Crucial Role of Hermite Polynomials

A novel analytical formalism based on the quantum heat transport equation is proposed for the interaction of fs-laser pulses with deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) strands. The formalism has the intensity of the laser beam and the interaction time between the laser and the DNA as input parameters. To this...

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Autores principales: Oane, Mihai, Mihailescu, Cristian Nicolae, Trefilov, Alexandra Maria Isabel
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10179366/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37176217
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma16093334
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author Oane, Mihai
Mihailescu, Cristian Nicolae
Trefilov, Alexandra Maria Isabel
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Mihailescu, Cristian Nicolae
Trefilov, Alexandra Maria Isabel
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description A novel analytical formalism based on the quantum heat transport equation is proposed for the interaction of fs-laser pulses with deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) strands. The formalism has the intensity of the laser beam and the interaction time between the laser and the DNA as input parameters. To this end, the thermal distribution generated in the irradiated DNA strands was introduced by splitting the laser beam into transverse Hermite-Gauss modes. To achieve this goal, a new powerful mathematical model was developed and applied. Fluctuations in laser intensity were taken into account by modeling them as superpositions of Hermite-Gauss laser modes. These analyses were carried out for a laser pulse duration of 100 fs, where a tiny heat-affected zone is expected, with positive predicted effects on the stability and repeatability of this technology. The main conclusion is that the laser beam spatial distribution intensity plays an essential role in the generation of the shape and magnitude of the thermal field at the junction of the irradiated DNA strands. The model may prove useful in modeling laser beam processing under significant intensity fluctuations. There are at least two main areas of application for the present model of heat transfer from laser to DNA: (i) the study of DNA elongation without destroying the target information (for a sample temperature variation lower than 10 K; in the case of H[1,y]); and (ii) cancer treatment (especially of skin tissue), where we should obtain a temperature variation higher than 10 K (but lower than 30 K; in the case of H[2,y], H[4,y]), in order to eradicate the diseased cells.
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spelling pubmed-101793662023-05-13 On the Thermal Behavior during Spatial Anisotropic Femtoseconds Laser-DNA Interaction: The Crucial Role of Hermite Polynomials Oane, Mihai Mihailescu, Cristian Nicolae Trefilov, Alexandra Maria Isabel Materials (Basel) Article A novel analytical formalism based on the quantum heat transport equation is proposed for the interaction of fs-laser pulses with deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) strands. The formalism has the intensity of the laser beam and the interaction time between the laser and the DNA as input parameters. To this end, the thermal distribution generated in the irradiated DNA strands was introduced by splitting the laser beam into transverse Hermite-Gauss modes. To achieve this goal, a new powerful mathematical model was developed and applied. Fluctuations in laser intensity were taken into account by modeling them as superpositions of Hermite-Gauss laser modes. These analyses were carried out for a laser pulse duration of 100 fs, where a tiny heat-affected zone is expected, with positive predicted effects on the stability and repeatability of this technology. The main conclusion is that the laser beam spatial distribution intensity plays an essential role in the generation of the shape and magnitude of the thermal field at the junction of the irradiated DNA strands. The model may prove useful in modeling laser beam processing under significant intensity fluctuations. There are at least two main areas of application for the present model of heat transfer from laser to DNA: (i) the study of DNA elongation without destroying the target information (for a sample temperature variation lower than 10 K; in the case of H[1,y]); and (ii) cancer treatment (especially of skin tissue), where we should obtain a temperature variation higher than 10 K (but lower than 30 K; in the case of H[2,y], H[4,y]), in order to eradicate the diseased cells. MDPI 2023-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10179366/ /pubmed/37176217 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma16093334 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Oane, Mihai
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Trefilov, Alexandra Maria Isabel
On the Thermal Behavior during Spatial Anisotropic Femtoseconds Laser-DNA Interaction: The Crucial Role of Hermite Polynomials
title On the Thermal Behavior during Spatial Anisotropic Femtoseconds Laser-DNA Interaction: The Crucial Role of Hermite Polynomials
title_full On the Thermal Behavior during Spatial Anisotropic Femtoseconds Laser-DNA Interaction: The Crucial Role of Hermite Polynomials
title_fullStr On the Thermal Behavior during Spatial Anisotropic Femtoseconds Laser-DNA Interaction: The Crucial Role of Hermite Polynomials
title_full_unstemmed On the Thermal Behavior during Spatial Anisotropic Femtoseconds Laser-DNA Interaction: The Crucial Role of Hermite Polynomials
title_short On the Thermal Behavior during Spatial Anisotropic Femtoseconds Laser-DNA Interaction: The Crucial Role of Hermite Polynomials
title_sort on the thermal behavior during spatial anisotropic femtoseconds laser-dna interaction: the crucial role of hermite polynomials
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10179366/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37176217
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma16093334
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