Preliminary investigations of laser mediated cartilage reshaping in the in vivo rabbit model

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4609, Issue , 2002, Pages 326-330

  Chang, John C ^a   Diaz, Sergio ^a   Wong, Brian J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

In vivo; Laser mediated cartilage reshaping; Rabbit model; Septal cartilage

Indexed keywords

CARTILAGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; HISTOLOGY; IRRADIATION; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; NEODYMIUM LASERS;

LASER CARTILAGE RESHAPING;

LASER SURGERY;

EID: 0036401172     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.441096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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