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Aug, 2008

Sterilization of medical equipment using oxygen radicals produced by water vapor RF plasma

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE
  • Nobuya Hayashi
  • ,
  • Shinsuke Tsutsui
  • ,
  • Tetsushi Tomari
  • ,
  • Weimin Guan

Volume
36
Number
4
First page
1302
Last page
1303
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1109/TPS.2008.924453
Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

A safe and clean method of sterilizing medical equipment is proposed, which uses radicals produced by RF plasma. The plasma source gas for the sterilization is water vapor, which produces hydroxyl radicals upon the RF discharge. The inactivation of bacillus on medical equipment by water vapor plasma at a temperature below 55 degrees C gives a decimal reduction value of 26 min.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2008.924453
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000258618200221&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1109/TPS.2008.924453
  • ISSN : 0093-3813
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000258618200221

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