Skin optical clearing for improvement of laser tattoo removal

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6734, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Genina, Elina A ^a   Bashkatov, Alexey N ^a   Gavrilova, Anna A ^a   Pravdin, Alexander B ^a   Tuchin, Valery V ^a   Yaroslavsky, Ilya V ^b   Altshuler, Gregory B ^b  

^a SARATOV STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Palomar Medical Products   (United States)

Author keywords

Glycerol; Optical clearing; Skin; Tattoo

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; GLYCEROL; LIGHT SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THERMOLYSIS; WAVELENGTH;

LASER ENERGY; OPTICAL CLEARING; SKIN OPTICAL CLEARING; TATTOO;

LASER OPTICS;

EID: 36248989014     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.753224     Document Type: Conference Paper

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