The system “blasts microscopic jets of drugs into the skin,” according to the release. It uses an Er:YAG laser to propel the stream of medicine.
The device was developed by Jack Yoh, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Seoul National University in South Korea, and his graduate students. The injector device is described in a paper published in the Optical Society’s journal Optics Letters.
Prof. Yoh is working with a company to produce the injectors for clinical use.
“In the immediate future, this technology could be most easily adopted to situations where small doses of drugs are injected at multiple sites,” he said, in the release. “Further work would be necessary to adopt it for scenarios like mass vaccine injections for children.”
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