Current status of flexible waveguides for IR laser radiation transmission

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 880-888

  Gannot, Israel ^b,c,d,e,f,g   Inberg, Alexandra ^c   Oksman, Mark ^c   Waynant, Ronald ^a,b   Croitoru, Nathan ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^e Bio Medical Engineering R and D

^f International Society for Optical Engineering

^g Amer Soc for Laser Med and Surg

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOSCOPY; FIBER OPTICS; INFRARED TRANSMISSION; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LASER SURGERY; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PERFORMANCE;

ENDOSCOPIC IMAGING SYSTEMS; FLEXIBLE WAVEGUIDES; MINIMAL INVASIVE SURGERY;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0030348604     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.577310     Document Type: Article

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