Computer-assisted laser tattoo removal: A proposed prototype system

46th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium and 46th International ISA Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation Symposium 2009

Volumn 476, Issue , 2009, Pages 214-219

  Barrett, Steven F ^a   Wright, Cameron H G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer assisted laser delivery system; Selective photothermolysis; Tattoo ink spectra

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED; COMPUTER-ASSISTED LASER DELIVERY SYSTEM; DELIVERY SYSTEMS; SELECTIVE PHOTOTHERMOLYSIS;

COMPUTER CRIME; CORUNDUM; DYE LASERS; INK; INSTRUMENTS; LANDFORMS; LASER SURGERY; LASERS; NEODYMIUM; PUMPING (LASER); Q SWITCHED LASERS; Q SWITCHING; REMOVAL;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

EID: 72849144060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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