Pigmentation in NIR Laser Tissue Damage

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4953, Issue , 2003, Pages 78-84

  Denton, Michael L ^a   Eikum, Debbie M ^a   Noojin, Gary D ^a   Stolarski, David J ^a   Thomas, Robert J ^c   Glickman, Randolph D ^b   Rockwell, Benjamin A ^c  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial pigmentation; Cytotoxicity threshold; Fluorescence microscopy; hTERT RPE1 cells; Mode locked

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; LASER DAMAGE; LASER MODE LOCKING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION;

PIGMENTATION;

LASER TISSUE INTERACTION;

EID: 0141605827     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.476898     Document Type: Conference Paper

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