Subcellular nanosurgery with a pulsed subnanosecond UV-A laser

Medical Laser Application

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 217-222

  Colombelli, Julien ^a   Reynaud, Emmanuel G ^a   Stelzer, Ernst H K ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Femtosecond laser; Microtubules; Nanosurgery; Picosecond laser; Pulsed laser

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; LASER ABLATION; LASER PULSES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PLASMAS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CYTOSKELETON; MICROTUBULES; NANOSURGERY;

SURGERY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CYTOSKELETON; LASER SURGERY; NONHUMAN; SUBCELLULAR NANOSURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

EID: 28444452543     PISSN: 16151615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mla.2005.07.003     Document Type: Article

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