Comparison of 810 nm and 1064 nm wavelengths for interstitial laser photocoagulation in rabbit brain

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 50-58

  Wyman, Douglas R ^a,b   Schatz, Stanley W ^a   Maguire, John A C ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b JURAVINSKI CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain; Interstitial laser photocoagulation (ILP); Laser diode; Nd:YAG

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; LASER COAGULATION; NEODYMIUM LASER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SURVIVAL; YAG LASER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; LASER COAGULATION; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; RABBITS;

EID: 0030871648     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1997)21:1<50::AID-LSM8>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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