Clinical ultrafast laser surgery: Recent advances and future directions

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Hoy, Christopher L ^a,b   Ferhanoǧlu, Onur ^a   Yildirim, Murat ^a   Kim, Ki Hyun ^a   Karajanagi, Sandeep S ^c   Chan, Ka Man Carmen ^c   Kobler, James B ^c   Zeitels, Steven M ^c   Ben Yakar, Adela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical Optical Imaging.; Laser Ablation; Nonlinear Optics; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; LASER ABLATION; LASER SURGERY; NONLINEAR OPTICS; SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TISSUE; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL); ULTRAFAST LASERS;

BIOMEDICAL OPTICAL IMAGING; CLINICAL APPLICATION; FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; SURGICAL APPLICATIONS; ULTRAFAST PULSED LASERS;

PULSED LASERS;

EID: 84990990406     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2013.2287098     Document Type: Article

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