Infrared skin damage thresholds from 1319-nm continuous-wave laser exposures

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Oliver, Jeffrey W ^a   Vincelette, Rebecca ^b   Noojin, Gary D ^b   Clark, Clifton D ^b   Harbert, Corey A ^b   Schuster, Kurt J ^b   Shingledecker, Aurora D ^b   Kumru, Semih S ^a   Maughan, Justin ^c   Kitzis, Naomi ^c   Buffington, Gavin D ^c   Stolarski, David J ^b   Thomas, Robert J ^a  

^a 711th Human Performance Wing Bioeffects Division Optical Radiation Bioeffects Branch   (United States)

^b TASC Inc   (United States)

^c FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Damage threshold; Exposure limits; Infrared laser; Laser thermal tissue response; Minimum visible lesion; Skin damage; Thermal injury; Thermography

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE THRESHOLD; EXPOSURE LIMITS; MINIMUM VISIBLE LESION; SKIN DAMAGE; THERMAL INJURIES; TISSUE RESPONSE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DERMATOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; INFRARED LASERS; LASER SAFETY; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MINIPIG; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; SKIN; SOLID STATE LASER; SWINE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; SKIN; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE;

EID: 84890503827     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.18.12.125002     Document Type: Article

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