Investigations on acoustic on-line monitoring of IR laser ablation of burned skin

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 69-78

  Nahen, Kester ^a   Vogel, Alfred ^a  

^a MEDICAL LASER CENTER LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic feedback; Acoustic transients; Burn debridement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BURN; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER SURGERY; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK WAVE; SKIN SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE NECROSIS; YAG LASER;

ACOUSTICS; BURNS; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PHOTOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0032806921     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1999)25:1<69::AID-LSM9>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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