Steven J. Rehse

TL;DR: An overview of the biomedical applications of LIBS is meant to summarize the research that has been performed to date, as well as to suggest to health care providers several possible specific future applications which, if successfully implemented, would be significantly beneficial to humankind.

TL;DR: Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria colonies have been analyzed by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy using nanosecond laser pulses to study the dependence of the LIBS spectrum on growth and environmental conditions.

TL;DR: This analysis showed efficient discrimination between laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy spectra from different strains of a single bacteria species.

TL;DR: In this article, a pathogenic strain of bacteria, Escherichia coli O157:H7 (enterohemorrhagic E. coli or EHEC), has been analyzed by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) with nanosecond pulses and compared to three nonpathogenic E coli strains: a laboratory strain of K-12 (AB), a derivative of the same strain termed HF4714, and an environmental strain, E coli C (Nino C).

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of the presence of a second bacterial species in the ablated specimen had on the identification of the majority species was investigated and a linear dependence of the total spectral power as a function of cell number was determined.