Ablative targeting of fatty-tissue using a high-powered diode laser

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 100-105

  O'Dey, Dan Mon ^a   Prescher, Andreas ^a   Poprawe, Reinhart ^b   Gaus, Sebastian ^a   Stanzel, Sven ^a   Pallua, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR LASER TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diode laser ablation of fat; Lipoplasty; Optical properties of fatty tissue

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CALCULATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIODE LASER; EVALUATION; HEATING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRRADIATION; LASER ASSISTED LIPOPLASTY; LIPOLYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; NEAR INFRARED DIODE LASER; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; THIGH; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 40449118681     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20602     Document Type: Article

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