The role of dynamic changes in blood perfusion and optical properties in thermal coagulation of the prostate

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2391, Issue , 1995, Pages 443-450

  Kim, Beop Min ^a,b   Jacques, Steven L ^a   Rastegar, Sohi ^b   Thomsen, Sharon ^a   Motamedi, Massoud ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; COAGULATION; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; TISSUE; UROLOGY;

BLOOD PERFUSION; BLOOD PERFUSION RATE; DYNAMIC EVOLUTION; LIGHT ENERGY DEPOSITION; NON-LINEAR MODEL; NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PROSTATE TISSUE; THERMAL COAGULATIONS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 0000330097     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.209911     Document Type: Conference Paper

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