Synchronous radiation with Er:YAG and Ho:YAG lasers for efficient ablation of hard tissues

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 337-346

  Watanabe, Tomonori ^a   Iwai, Katsumasa ^b   Katagiri, Takashi ^a   Matsuura, Yuji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SENDAI NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ALUMINA; CAMERAS; ERBIUM; HISTOLOGY;

ABLATION MECHANISMS; ALUMINA CERAMIC BALL; DELAY TIME; HARD TISSUES; HO:YAG LASERS; LASER POWER; ULTRA HIGH SPEED;

TISSUE;

EID: 80053071929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.1.000337     Document Type: Article

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