Laser Applications in Medicine

Andreas H. Hielscher, Steven L. Jacques, Lihong H. Wang, and Frank K. Tittel, "Influence of Boundary Conditions on the Accuracy of Diffusion Theory in Time-Resolved Reflectance Spectroscopy of Biological Tissues," Physics in Medi cine and Biology 40, 1957-1975 (1995).

A.A. Oraevsky, L.B. DaSilva, M.D. Feit, M.E. Clinsky, B.M. Mammini, K.L. Paquette, M.D. Perry, A.M. Rubenshik, W. Small IV, B.C. Stuart, and F.K. Tittel, "Plasma Mediated Ablation of Biological Tissues with Ultrashort Laser Pulses," Proc SP IEE 2391A (1995).

Andreas H. Hielscher, Frank K. Tittel, Hanli Liu, Britton Chance, and Steven L. Jacques, "Time Resolved Photon Emission from Layered Turbid Media," Applied Optics 35, 719-728 (1996).

Alexander A. Oraevsky, Steven L. Jacques, Rinat O. Esenaliev, and Frank K. Tittel, "Pulsed Laser Ablation of Soft Tissues, Gels, and Aqueous Solutions at Temperatures Below 100º C," Lasers in Surgery and Medicine 18, 231 -240 (1996).

Alexander A. Oraevsky, Steven L. Jacques, and Frank K. Tittel, "Mechanism of Laser Ablation for Aqueous Media Irritated Under Confined-Stress Conditions," Journal of Applied Physics 78, 1281-1290 (1995).

A.A. Oraevsky, R.O. Esenaliev, S.L. Jacques, F.K. Tittel and D. Medina, "Breast Cancer Diagnostics by Laser Opto-Acoustic Tomography," OSA TOPS Vol. II on Advances in Optical Imaging and Photon Micration 1996, ed. R.R. Alfano and J.G. F ujimoto, pp. 316-321.

S.-P. Lin, L.-H. Wang, S.L. Jacques, and F.K. Tittel, "Measurement of Tissue Optical Properties Using Oblique Incidence Optical Fiber Reflectometry," Applied Optics 36, 136-143 (1997).

Alexander A. Oraevsky, Steven L. Jacques, and Frank K. Tittel, "Measurements of Tissue Optical Properties by Means of Time-Resolved Detection of Laser-Induced Transient Stress," Applied Optics 36, 402-415 (1997).

Rinat O. Esenaliev, Alexander A. Karabutov, Frank K. Tittel, Bruno D. Fornage, Sharon L. Thomsen, Carol Stelling, and Alexander A. Oraevsky, "Laser Optoacoustic Imaging for Breast Cancer Diagnostics: Limit of Detection and Comparison with X-Ra y and Ultrasound Imaging," SPIE Proceedings of Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue 2979, 71-82 (1997).

R.O. Esenaliev, H. Alma, F.K. Tittel, and A.A. Oraevsky, "Axial Resolution of Laser Opto-Acoustic Imaging: Influence of Acoustic Attenation and Diffraction, SPIE 3254: Laser-Tissue Interaction IX, 294-306 (1998).

Yuji Morimoto, William Durante, David G. Lancaster, Jens Klattenhoff, and Frank K. Tittel, “Real-time measurement of endogenous CO production from vascular cells using an ultrasensitive laser sensor,” Am. J. Physiology: Heart and Circulatory Physiology 280, H483-H488 (2001).  

Lars Menzel, Anatoliy A. Kosterev, Frank K. Tittel, Claire Gmachl, Federico Capasso, Deborah L. Sivco, James N. Baillargeon, Albert L. Hutchinson, Alfred Y. Cho, and Wolfgang Urban, "Spectroscopic detection of biological NO with a quantum cascade laser," Applied Physics B 72, 859-863 (2001).

A.A. Kosterev, F.K. Tittel, W. Durante, M. Allen, R. Köhler, C. Gmachl, F. Capasso, D.L. Sivco, and A.Y. Cho, "Detection of biogenic CO production above vascular cell cultures using a near-room-temperature QC-DFB laser," 74, 95–99 (2002).

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