A novel diode laser system for photodynamic therapy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4433, Issue , 2001, Pages 134-139

  Samsøe, Eva ^a,b   Petersen, Paul M ^a   Andersen, Peter E ^a   Andersson Engels, Stefan ^b   Svanberg, Katarina ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Diode lasers; Medical optics instruments; Photodynamic therapy

Indexed keywords

BARIUM TITANATE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; LASER BEAMS; MOLECULAR CRYSTALS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

LINEAR SPATIAL FILTERING;

PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY;

EID: 0345683851     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.446515     Document Type: Article

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