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Year: 1,988
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Language: English
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Identifier: 978-3-540-18130-9,978-3-642-72870-9
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Tags: Engineering, general Surgery Imaging / Radiology Biomedical Engineering
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Toc: Front Matter....Pages I-XXVIIFront Matter....Pages 1-1Laser Hospital — It’s Clinical and Engineering Results....Pages 3-6Remotized Laser Beam Distribution System for Surgical Applications....Pages 7-10Diffusely Reflecting Surfaces for Laser Surgical Instruments....Pages 11-14Excimer Laser for Medicine — Prospects for Computer Guided Surgery....Pages 15-18A New Argon Laser System with Kaleidoscanner and its Clinical Applications....Pages 19-22The Clinical Potential of the Holmium Laser....Pages 23-26Medical Applications of KrF Excimer Laser....Pages 27-30Comparative Study on Excimer, CO 2 and Nd: YAG Laser for Biological Tissue Cutting....Pages 31-34Neodymium-YAG Laser at 1064 and 1320 NM: Laser Tissue Interaction at Varying Irradiation Parameters and Application Techniques....Pages 35-37Photoablation Threshold of Human Aorta as a Function of Wavelength....Pages 38-41First Experiences with Disposable Fibre Delivery Systems for the Neodym-YAG-Laser....Pages 42-44Infrared Plastic Waveguides for Surgical Applications....Pages 45-48Hollow Light Guide for Medical CO 2 Laser....Pages 49-52Medical Applications of Silver Halide Optical Fibers....Pages 53-56Detection and Analysis of the Ultra-Weak Photon Emission from Various Biological Materials....Pages 57-60Miniaturized Optoelectronic Transceiver for Application and Pick-Up of Biological Signals....Pages 61-66Applications of Optical Phase Conjugation in Medicine....Pages 67-70Potential Applications of Lasers in Diagnosis and Preoperative Assessment of Lesions Using Three Dimensional Imaging....Pages 71-74Front Matter....Pages 75-75Homo Faber Amplificus Lucis — State of the Art....Pages 77-86Lasers in Neu