Imaging of the irradiation of skin with a clinical CO2 laser system: Implications for laser skin resurfacing

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 185-193

  Choi, Bernard ^a   Barton, Jennifer K ^a   Chan, Eric K ^b   Welch, Ashley J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Indigo Medical Inc   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Carbon dioxide laser; Pyrolysis; Skin resurfacing; Thermography

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; IRRADIATION; LASER SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN SURGERY; TEMPERATURE; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; LASER SURGERY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0031724676     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1998)23:4<185::AID-LSM1>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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