Influence of the spatial beam profile on hard tissue ablation part I: Multimode emitting Er:YAG lasers

Lasers in Medical Science

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 112-118

  Meister, J ^a,b   Apel, C ^a   Franzen, R ^a   Gutknecht, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ablation threshold; Energy density; Gaussian beam distribution; Hard tissue ablation; Spatial beam profile

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM;

ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENAMEL; ENERGY; ERBIUM YAG LASER; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IRRADIATION; LASER; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DENTAL ENAMEL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ERBIUM; HUMANS; LASERS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RADIOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 0141652017     PISSN: 02688921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10103-003-0263-9     Document Type: Article

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