Analysis of thermal relaxation during laser irradiation of tissue

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 351-359

  Choi, Bernard ^a,b   Welch, Ashley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective relaxation time; Heat conduction; Spatial beam profile; Thermal modeling, finite difference

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; HEATING; IRRADIATION; LASER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OPTICAL ROTATION; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAXATION TIME; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TISSUE;

DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS; HEAT; LASER SURGERY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034765293     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.1128     Document Type: Article

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