Characteristics of calculus fragmentation with Er:YAG laser light emitted by an infrared hollow optical fiber with various sealing caps

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 3266-3270

  Iwai, Katsumasa ^a   Shi, Yi Wei ^b   Matsuura, Yuji ^b   Miyagi, Mitsunobu ^b   Saito, Seichi ^c   Arai, Youichi ^c  

^a SENDAI NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER ABLATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SILICA; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

CALCULUS FRAGMENTATION; ENERGY DENSITY; ER:YAG LASER LIGHT; FRAGMENTATION EFFICIENCY;

LASER BEAMS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; STONE FORMATION; TRANSDUCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CALCULI; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; LITHOTRIPSY, LASER; TRANSDUCERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20544436477     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.003266     Document Type: Article

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