Dynamics of tissue optics during laser heating of turbid media

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 3413-3420

  Lin, Wei Chiang ^a   Motamedi, Massoud ^a   Welch, Ashley J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffuse reflectance; Laser heating; Pulsed laser; Reversible optical behavior; Tissue coagulation; Tissue optics; Total transmittance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001409522     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.003413     Document Type: Article

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