Optoacoustic online temperature determination during retinal laser photocoagulation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6632, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Schlott, Kerstin ^a   Stalljohann, Jens ^b   Weber, Benjamin ^b   Kandulla, Jochen ^a   Herrmann, Katharina ^a   Birngruber, Reginald ^a,b   Brinkmann, Ralf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL LASER CENTER LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optoacoustics; Photocoagulation; Retinal laser treatments; Temperature; Temperature simulations; Ultrasonic transducer

Indexed keywords

COAGULATION; DENATURATION; DISEASES; TISSUE; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS;

OPTOACOUSTIC ONLINE TEMPERATURES; RETINAL LASER TREATMENTS; RETINAL PHOTOCOAGULATION; SCAR FORMATION; TEMPERATURE SIMULATIONS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

EID: 36249002352     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.728291     Document Type: Conference Paper

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