Cold ion atmospheric plasma jets for living tissue treatment

Recently a great attention is attracted to the creation of the cold plasma jets and their interaction with living tissue. The plasma gun operating on helium and equipped with high-voltage resonant transformer is designed. Long nondivergent plasma jets with length more than 5 cm and diameter 1-2 mm are obtained. The measured electrical current in the plasma jet indicates that the plasma jet is discontinuous and represents a series of propagating plasma bundles (two bundles per driving high voltage period) with peak current up to few hundred mA. The exposition of the living tissue (fibroblast cells and PEM cells) to the helium plasma jet causes an immediate detachment of part of the cells from their matrix in the case of direct contact of the jet with cell culture. In addition, it was found that migration velocity inside of the treated region significantly decreases in the case of treatment through the thin layer of the protecting media covering the cell culture.