Investigation of stone retropulsion as a function of Ho:YAG laser pulse dration

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6078, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kang, Hyun Wook ^a   Lee, Ho ^b   Petersen, Jason ^c   Teichman, J H ^d   Welch, A J ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Convergent Laser Technologies ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; HOLMIUM; LASER ABLATION; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL FIBERS; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

ABLATION EFFICIENCY; HO:YAG LASER PULSE DRATION; LASER LITHOTRIPSY; PULSE ENERGY; STONE RETROPULSION;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 33646181014     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.646513     Document Type: Conference Paper

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