Er:YAG laser pulse for small-dose splashback-free microjet transdermal drug delivery

Optics Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 3894-3896

  Park, Mi Ae ^a   Jang, Hun Jae ^a   Sirotkin, Fedir V ^a   Yoh, Jack J ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG DOSAGE; ERBIUM; JETS; LASER BEAMS; LASER PULSES; WATER INJECTION;

CONTROLLABILITY STUDIES; FLUORESCENT STAINING; HYDRODYNAMIC THEORY; INJECTION SCHEMES; MICRO-JET SYSTEM; MULTIPLE PULSE; PULSE DURATIONS; TRANSDERMAL DRUG DELIVERY;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; JET INJECTION; LASER; MICROINJECTION; SOLID STATE LASER;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INJECTIONS, JET; LASERS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MICROINJECTIONS; MINIATURIZATION;

EID: 84866283249     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.37.003894     Document Type: Article

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