There are three principal classes of laser tissue interactions. All three can be used to remove malignant tissue either by biological digestion or immediate removal i.e., photovaporization or photodecomposition. This paper discusses a semiempirical theory of the so-called photoablation process and the thermal side effects of the surrounding tissue. Describing the photoablation process requires differentiation to be made between very short laser pulse durations (

Date Published: 1 November 1991
PDF: 27 pages
Proc. SPIE 1525, Future Trends in Biomedical Applications of Lasers, (1 November 1991); doi: 10.1117/12.48200

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1525:
Future Trends in Biomedical Applications of Lasers
Lars Othar Svaasand, Editor(s)