Improvement of port wine stain laser therapy by skin preheating prior to cryogen spray cooling: A numerical simulation

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 155-162

  Jia, Wangcun ^a   Aguilar, Guillermo ^a,b   Verkruysse, Wim ^a   Franco, Walfre ^a,b   Nelson, J Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryogen spray cooling; Duhamel theorem; Laser dermatologic surgery; Monte Carlo; Skin preheating; Thin foil thermocouple; Vascular malformation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CRYOGEN SPRAY COOLING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEAT TREATMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER SURGERY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SKIN SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CRYOTHERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEAT; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PORT-WINE STAIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33644996145     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20255     Document Type: Article

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