Ultrashort pulse lasers for hard tissue ablation

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 790-799

  Neev, Joseph ^b,d,e,f   Da Silva, Luiz B ^a,c,g,h   Feit, Michael D ^c,f,i,j,k   Perry, Michael D ^c   Rubenchik, Alexander M ^c   Stuart, Brent C ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^h Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ^*

ⁱ RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^j University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^k Amer Assoc for Adv of Science

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER ABLATION; LASER SURGERY; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; TISSUE;

ABLATION EFFICIENCY; COLLATERAL DAMAGE; HARD TISSUE ABLATION; ULTRASHORT PULSE LASERS;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0030348829     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.577301     Document Type: Article

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