Laser medicine is the use of lasers in medical diagnosis, treatments, or therapies, such as laser photodynamic therapy, photorejuvenation, and laser surgery...
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Low-level laser therapy (LLLT), cold laser therapy, photobiomodulation (PBM) or red light therapy is a form of medicine that applies low-level (low-power)...
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cosmetic medicine for laser hair removal and the treatment of minor vascular defects such as spider veins on the face and legs. Nd:YAG lasers are also...
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Laser hair removal is the process of hair removal by means of exposure to pulses of laser light that destroy the hair follicle. It had been performed...
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A ruby laser is a solid-state laser that uses a synthetic ruby crystal as its gain medium. The first working laser was a ruby laser made by Theodore H...
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Photorejuvenation (redirect from Laser resurfacing)
intact. Laser resurfacing is usually done with a 2940 nm Er:YAG laser or a 10,600 nm CO2 laser. Complete resurfacing was first done with a CO2 laser. Both...
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irradiating it with a laser beam. At low laser flux, the material is heated by the absorbed laser energy and evaporates or sublimates. At high laser flux, the material...
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Laser surgery is a type of surgery that uses a laser (in contrast to using a scalpel) to cut tissue. Types of surgical lasers include carbon dioxide,...
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Laser lithotripsy is a surgical procedure to remove stones from urinary tract, i.e., kidney, ureter, bladder, or urethra. Laser lithotripsy was invented...
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ion laser is a gas laser that uses an ionized gas as its lasing medium. Like other gas lasers, ion lasers feature a sealed cavity containing the laser medium...
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Mode locking (redirect from Femtosecond laser)
a laser can be made to produce pulses of light of extremely short duration, on the order of picoseconds (10−12 s) or femtoseconds (10−15 s). A laser operated...
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A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word...
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This is a list of laser types, their operational wavelengths, and their applications. Thousands of kinds of laser are known, but most of them are used...
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Port-wine stain (category Laser medicine)
potential consequence of delayed and inadequate treatment?". Lasers in Surgery and Medicine. 41 (6): 423–6. doi:10.1002/lsm.20788. PMC 4690461. PMID 19588535...
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post-residency fellowships are available in immunodermatology, phototherapy, laser medicine, Mohs micrographic surgery, cosmetic surgery, dermatopathology, or pediatric...
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A laser diode (LD, also injection laser diode or ILD or semiconductor laser or diode laser) is a semiconductor device similar to a light-emitting diode...
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Tattoo removal (redirect from Laser Tattoo Removal)
multi-pass q-switched laser treatment of tattoos with a transparent perfluorodecalin-infused patch: A pilot study". Lasers in Surgery and Medicine. 47 (8): 613–618...
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A dye laser is a laser that uses an organic dye as the lasing medium, usually as a liquid solution. Compared to gases and most solid state lasing media...
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An Er:glass laser (erbium-doped glass laser) is a solid-state laser whose active laser medium is erbium-doped glass. Ytterbium (Yb) is sometimes added...
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Endre Mester (category Laser medicine)
pioneer of laser medicine, especially the use of low level laser therapy (LLLT). In 1967, only a few years after the first working laser was invented...
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Laser capture microdissection (LCM), also called microdissection, laser microdissection (LMD), or laser-assisted microdissection (LMD or LAM), is a method...
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Laser coagulation or laser photocoagulation surgery is used to treat a number of eye diseases and has become widely used in recent decades. During the...
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Laser blended vision is a laser eye treatment which is used to treat presbyopia (ageing eyes; progressive loss of the ability to focus on nearby objects)...
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Blood irradiation therapy (category Laser medicine)
blood vessel. The laser light is monochromatic. It is not related to the practice of gamma irradiation of blood in transfusion medicine. In 1928, Dr. Emmet...
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American dermatologist and a pioneer in laser medicine. His research areas included the application of lasers in dermatology, cancer photodynamic therapy...
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physician is also used interchangeably to describe this role. Laser medicine involves the use of lasers in the diagnostics or treatment of various conditions...
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An Er:YAG laser (erbium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet laser, erbium YAG laser) is a solid-state laser whose active laser medium is erbium-doped yttrium...
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Hair removal (category Laser medicine)
permanent hair removal method recognized by the FDA. Laser hair removal (lasers and laser diodes): Laser hair removal technology became widespread in the...
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Gingivectomy (section Laser gingivectomy)
periodontal pockets through irradiation with a diode laser: a pilot study". Journal of Clinical Laser Medicine & Surgery. 15 (1): 33–7. doi:10.1089/clm.1997...
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Certain laser medicine techniques Plasma generation, especially for wakefield acceleration Laser weapons ISO standard 21254-1: 2011(E): "Lasers and laser-related...
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