Mid-infrared lasers for transmyocardial laser revascularization

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4156, Issue , 2001, Pages 175-180

  Jelinkova H ^a   Nemec M ^a   Sulc J ^a   Dvoracek D ^a   Kubecek V ^a   Vrbova M ^a   Cerny P ^a   Kvasnicka J ^b   Kokta, M R ^c   Miyagi, M ^d  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c Bircon Crystal Products   (United States)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CTH:YAG laser; Er:YAG laser; Tm:YAG laser; Transmyocardial laser revascularization (TMLR)

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; HISTOLOGY; INFRARED DEVICES; LASER ABLATION; SOLID STATE LASERS; TISSUE;

TRANSMYOCARDIAL LASER REVASCULARIZATION (TMLR);

LASER SURGERY;

EID: 17744372681     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.413700     Document Type: Article

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