Status and improvements of the UV laser scalpel

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4957, Issue , 2003, Pages 92-96

  Köhler, Marco ^a   Dietz, Hartmut ^a   Matsuura, Yuji ^b   Miyagi, Mitsunobu ^b   Klein, Karl Friedrich ^c   Hillrichs, Georg ^a  

^a University of Applied Sciences Merseburg   (Germany)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c University of Applied Science   (Germany)

Author keywords

Excimer laser; Flexible beam guiding; Hollow core waveguide; Laser microsurgery; Laser scalpel; UV optical fiber

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; EXCIMER LASERS; FUSED SILICA; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TISSUE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

FLEXIBLE BEAM GUIDING; HOLLOW CORE WAVEGUIDE; LASER MICROSURGERY; ULTRAVIOLET LASER SCALPEL; ULTRAVIOLET OPTICAL FIBER;

LASER SURGERY;

EID: 0344851500     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.478065     Document Type: Conference Paper

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