Simultaneous irradiation and imaging of blood vessels during pulsed laser delivery

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 236-243

  Barton, Jennifer Kehlet ^a,d   Hammer, Daniel X ^b   Pfefer, T Joshua ^b   Lund, David J ^c   Stuck, Bruce E ^c   Welch, A J ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

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

^c USAF   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Finite difference model; Monte Carlo model; Port wine stains; Pulsed dye laser

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTER; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; BLOOD CELLS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSELS; CRICETINAE; LASERS; MESOCRICETUS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RHODAMINES; SKIN;

EID: 0032905922     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1999)24:3<236::AID-LSM9>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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