The interaction of light with nanoscopic layers of water may be essential to the future of photobiomodulation

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Santana Blank, Luis ^a   Rodríguez Santana, Elizabeth ^a  

^a Foundation for Interdisciplinary Research and Development   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; WATER;

CHEMISTRY; LETTER; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY;

LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; NANOSTRUCTURES; WATER;

EID: 77957570754     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2009.2745     Document Type: Letter

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