Applications of xenon in the medical industry

The medical field offers new long-term potential growth for xenon applications. Xenon gas is used to enhance X-ray, CAT scan and MRI imaging. Many fine structures in a human lung cannot be examined by a single MRI device. However, by inhaling the xenon/oxygen mixture, the MRI scan detects the necessary soft tissue fine structures to help doctors make more accurate diagnoses of many lung diseases. Scientists at The Royal College London have found that xenon could help protect damaged nerve cells.

Xenon has been found to have an anesthetic effect for almost 60 years. As an anesthetic, xenon does not react with various surgical materials and does not produce metabolic products in the body. It is known to have the least impact on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and does not have toxic and side effects on human body like other anesthetics. The application of xenon anesthesia has the advantages of quick induction, quick recovery, heart and nervous system protection, analgesic effect, small toxic and side effects and other excellent properties. It has become an ideal anesthetic for high-risk patients such as pregnant women, heart patients and elderly patients. But at present, xenon production is far from meeting this potentially high demand. The main disadvantage of xenon anaesthetic is its high cost, which can be reduced by using xenon recovery device.

Xenon in the world in the application of anesthesia is expanding, in Europe, xenon anesthesia is attracting people's attention, France air has a number of patents in this area, the use of the European demand has reached 1 million.

Xenon is used to Making the anesthetic

The latest application of xenon in electronic chip manufacturing

Xenon's latest use in electronic chip manufacturing is the most important reason for the current growth in xenon demand and speculation on xenon, which is being used by several large chipmakers for plasma etching, mainly in the manufacture of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). MEMS devices can integrate microelectronics and micromachinery into a single unit, making circuits more complex and more efficient on a single chip. The technology, which essentially combines a computer chip (which processes data) and a sensor (which collects data) into a single component, can be mass-produced. The potential uses of the chip are unlimited.

Xenon is use to manufacture of electronic chips