Optical clearing of skin using flashlamp-induced enhancement of epidermal permeability

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 824-836

  Tuchin, V V ^a   Altshuler, G B ^b   Gavrilova, A A ^a   Pravdin, A B ^a   Tabatadze, D ^b   Childs, J ^b   Yaroslavsky, I V ^b  

^a SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Palomar Medical Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Enhancement of epidermal permeability; Lattice of islets of damage; Optical skin clearing

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL AGENT; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; HEMOGLOBIN; PROPYLENE GLYCOL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DIFFUSION; DYNAMICS; ENERGY; EPIDERMIS; EX VIVO STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ILLUMINATION; IN VIVO STUDY; LIGHT INTENSITY; LIGHT IRRADIANCE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFRACTION INDEX; SKIN PERMEABILITY; STRATUM CORNEUM; SWINE; TECHNIQUE; THERMAL INJURY;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ANIMALS; CRYOPROTECTIVE AGENTS; DIFFUSION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GLUCOSE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; GLYCEROL; HEAT; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; OPTICS; PERMEABILITY; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; RATS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SKIN; SKIN ABSORPTION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SOLVENTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SWINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750725779     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20392     Document Type: Article

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