Lasers for Medical Applications

Lasers for Medical Applications

Diagnostics, Therapy and Surgery
Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials
2013, Pages 1-13
Lasers for Medical Applications

1 - Introduction: the history of lasers in medicine

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Abstract:

On the background of the history of laser medicine, the basic principles of the interaction of laser radiation with tissue are explained and the main factors influencing the results of the interaction are analyzed. After description of .laser radiation and tissue main characteristics, the primary factors of laser radiation interaction with tissue, including spectral reflection, refraction, absorption, scattering, and transmission, are defined. Secondary factors, i.e. photochemical or photothermal interaction (non-ablative heating, vaporization), photo-ablation, plasma-induced ablation, and photo-disruption are then mentioned.

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