Optimal parameters for laser treatment of leg telangiectasia

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 346-353

  Kienle, Alwin ^a,b   Hibst, Raimund ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

blood vessel; dye laser; laser beam diameter profile; Monte Carlo; telangiectasia; tissue optics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DYE LASER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER; LEG DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TELANGIECTASIA;

BLOOD VESSELS; HUMANS; LASERS; LEG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTICS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TELANGIECTASIS;

EID: 0030968178     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1997)20:3<346::AID-LSM14>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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