Aug, 2008
Sterilization of medical equipment using oxygen radicals produced by water vapor RF plasma
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE
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- 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 : 10.1109/TPS.2008.924453
- ISSN : 0093-3813
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000258618200221