Wound healing of 6.45-μm free electron laser skin incisions with neat-conducting templates

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 594-600

  Robbing, Jason B ^a   Reinisch, Lou ^b   Ellis, Darrel L ^a,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c Tennessee Valley Healthcare System   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat conduction; Laser surgery; Sprague Dawley rat; Tensiometry

Indexed keywords

LASER INCISIONS; TENSIOMETRY; THERMAL DAMAGE;

ANESTHETICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HEAT CONDUCTION; HISTOLOGY; LASER SURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; SKIN; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRANSPARENCY;

FREE ELECTRON LASERS;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BURN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER SURGERY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PROTECTION; RAT; SKIN; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BURNS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION PROTECTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0347593553     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1609452     Document Type: Article

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