Medical applications of ultrashort pulse lasers

CLEO/Pacific Rim 1999 - Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Volumn 1, Issue , 1999, Pages 43-44

  Kim, B M ^a   Feit, M D ^a   Rubenchik, A M ^a   Da Silva, L B ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER PULSES; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ABLATION RATES; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; MINIMAL DAMAGE;

ULTRASHORT PULSES; LASER ABLATION;

TISSUE REMOVAL;

EID: 0033284901     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLEOPR.1999.811614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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