"Heating" of blood by low intensity laser radiation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5142, Issue , 2003, Pages 120-126

  Korolevich, Alexander N ^a,c   Astafyeva, Liudmila G ^a   Dubina, Nataly S ^b   Vecherinsky, Sergey I ^b   Belsley, Michael S ^c  

^a B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

^b GP MTZ Medservice   (Belarus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Blood; Cardio vascular disease; Laser therapy; Scattering light

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BLOOD; CAPILLARY FLOW; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; HEAT TRANSFER; HEATING; IRRADIATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCIRCULATION; TISSUE; VELOCITY;

DERMIS; ERYTHROCYTES; LOW INTENSITY LASER IRRADIATION; MICROCAPILLARY BLOOD FLOW;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 1342267340     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.499789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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