Fundamental studies of fiber-guided soft tissue cutting by means of pulsed midinfrared lasers and their application in ureterotomy

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 85-95

  Brinkmann, Ralf ^a   Knipper, Ansgar ^b   Dröge, Gerit ^a   Schröer, Frank ^a   Gromoll, Bernd ^b   Birngruber, Reginald ^a  

^a MEDICAL LASER CENTER LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ablation; Cavitation bubble; Dynamics; Holmium laser; Incision; Stenosis; Thermal damage; Thulium laser; Ureteral stricture

Indexed keywords

BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CAVITATION; HOLMIUM; LASER ABLATION; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; SOLID STATE LASERS; THULIUM;

THERMAL DAMAGE; URETEROTOMY;

LASER SURGERY;

EID: 0031646461     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.429865     Document Type: Article

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