The importance of coherence in phototherapy

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7165, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hode, Tomas ^a   Duncan, Donald ^b   Kirkpatrick, Sean ^b   Jenkins, Peter ^a   Hode, Lars ^c  

^a Irradia USA   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Swedish Laser Medical Society   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coherence; Intensity; Laser; LH.T; Phototherapy; Polarization; Speckles; Threshold

Indexed keywords

COHERENCE; INTENSITY; LH.T; PHOTOTHERAPY; THRESHOLD;

ABSORPTION; LASERS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; PROBABILITY; RADIATION EFFECTS;

SPECKLE;

EID: 67249104920     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.809563     Document Type: Conference Paper

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