A new modality for minimally invasive CO2 laser surgery: Flexible hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers

Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 318-325

  Shurgalin, Max ^a   Anastassiou, Charalambos ^a  

^a OmniGuide   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINIMALLY INVASIVE; NEW MODALITY;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOMANIPULATION; BIOSENSOR; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER SURGERY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; FLEXIBLE HOLLOW CORE PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBER; GAS FLOW; HUMAN; LASER ADAPTER; LASER SURGERY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NONHUMAN; RELIABILITY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

CARBON DIOXIDE; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS, GAS; MINIATURIZATION; PHOTONS; POROSITY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 50849095205     PISSN: 08998205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2345/0899-8205(2008)42[318:ANMFMI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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