Laser surgery of port wine stains using local vaccum pressure: Changes in calculated energy deposition (part II)

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 118-127

  Franco, Walfre ^a,b   Childers, Michael ^b   Nelson, J Stuart ^a   Aguilar, Guillermo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy deposition; PWS; Vaccum pressure

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL; BLOOD VOLUME; CALCULATION; DIFFUSION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; EPIDERMIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER SURGERY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN COLOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMAL INJURY; VACUUM;

HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PORT-WINE STAIN; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; VACUUM;

EID: 33947150386     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20464     Document Type: Article

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