Simultaneous spatial and temporal focusing for tissue ablation

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 831-841

  Block, Erica ^a   Greco, Michael ^a   Vitek, Dawn ^a   Masihzadeh, Omid ^b   Ammar, David A ^b   Kahook, Malik Y ^b   Mandava, Naresh ^b   Durfee, Charles ^a   Squier, Jeff ^a  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE;

FOCAL PLANE; FOCAL SPOT; MICROJOULE; NONLINEAR EFFECT; NUMERICAL APERTURE; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; TEMPORAL FOCUSING; TISSUE ABLATIONS;

FOCUSING;

ABLATION THERAPY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; GEOMETRY; HISTOLOGY; LASER SURGERY; NONHUMAN; SIMULTANEOUS SPATIO TEMPORAL FOCUSING; SWINE; TISSUE ABLATION; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 84878521049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.4.000831     Document Type: Article

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