"Applied Plasma Medicine" review article by Gregory Fridman, Gary Friedman, Alexander Gutsol, Anatoly B. Shekhter, Victor N. Vasilets, Alexander Fridman has now been published online.

The article is available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ppap.200700154

Additionally you can download the PDF version from here.

Article details:

Applied Plasma Medicine
Gregory Fridman (1) *, Gary Friedman (2), Alexander Gutsol (3), Anatoly B. Shekhter (4), Victor N. Vasilets (3), Alexander Fridman (3)

1 School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
2 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
3 Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Department, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
4 I. M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy, Moscow, Russia

*Correspondence to:

Gregory Fridman,

School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems,

Drexel University,

Philadelphia, PA 19104

USA
email: Gregory Fridman (gregfridman@gmail.com)

Keywords
non-equilibrium plasma, plasma medicine, sterilization, tissue regeneration, wound healing

Abstract
An emerging field of plasma medicine is discussed, where non-equilibrium plasmas are shown to be able to initiate, promote, control, and catalyze various complex behaviors and responses in biological systems. More importantly, it will be shown that plasma can be tuned to achieve the desired medical effect, especially in medical sterilization and treatment of different kind of skin diseases. Wound healing and tissue regeneration can be achieved following various types of plasma treatment in a multitude of wound pathologies. Non-equilibrium plasmas will be shown to be non-destructive to tissue, safe, and effective in inactivation of various parasites and foreign organisms.