Brain ablation in the rat cerebral cortex using a tunable-free electron laser

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 81-92

  Ovelmen Levitt, Janice ^a   Straub, Karl D ^c   Hauger, Suzanne ^b   Szarmes, Eric ^d   Madey, John ^d   Pearlstein, Robert D ^a   Nashold Jr , Blaine S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser surgery; Neurosurgery; Parietal neocortex; Radiation effects; Thermally confined pulsed lasers

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDEMA; FREE ELECTRON LASER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER; LASER SURGERY; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VIBRATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; INFRARED RAYS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; LASER SURGERY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PHOTOTHERAPY; RATS;

EID: 0141706974     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.10197     Document Type: Article

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