Depth of tissue ablation and residual thermal damage caused by a pixilated 2,940nm laser in a swine skin model

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 408-411

  Regan, Thomas D ^a   Uebelhoer, Nathan S ^b   Satter, Elizabeth ^b   Ross, E Victor ^c  

^a WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

2,940nm; Ablation; Er:YAG; Fractional photothermolysis; Laser

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; ERBIUM YAG LASER; IN VIVO STUDY; KERATINOCYTE; LASER SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; STRATUM CORNEUM; SWINE; THERMAL INJURY; TISSUE INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; BURNS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; SKIN; SWINE;

EID: 77954420602     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20929     Document Type: Article

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