Heat transfer dynamics during treatment of port wine stain birthmarks with multiple-intermittent cryogen spurts and laser pulses

Proceedings of the ASME Summer Heat Transfer Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 855-859

  Jia, Wangcun ^a   Aguilar, Guillermo ^a,b   Stuart Nelson, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT TRANSFER DYNAMICS; PORT WINE STAIN (PWS); VASCULAR MALFORMATION;

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CRYOGENICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LASER PULSES; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; SKIN;

HEAT TRANSFER;

EID: 29744440735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/HT2005-72581     Document Type: Conference Paper

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