A predictive model of minimally invasive bipolar fractional radiofrequency skin treatment

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 473-478

  Berube, Dany ^a   Renton, Bradley ^a   Hantash, Basil M ^a,b  

^a Primaeva Medical Inc   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar radiofrequency; Collagen coagulation; Deep dermal heating; Dose; Finite element analysis; Fractional radiofrequency; Microneedle; Minimally invasive; Modeling; Nonablative; Skin treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR FRACTIONAL RADIOFREQUENCY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; EPIDERMIS; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOFREQUENCY; SENSOR; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN SENSITIVITY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMAL INJURY; VALIDATION STUDY;

DOSE FRACTIONATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 69749106391     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20794     Document Type: Article

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