Lasers in Medical Science

Scavengers Protection of Cells Against ALA-based Photodynamic Therapy-induced Damage

C. Perotti, A. Casas, A.M. Del C. Batlle

Editorial

S W Lanigan

Non-Invasive Pulsed Ultrasound Quantification of the Resolution of Basal Cell Carcinomas After Photodynamic Therapy

E. Allan, D.A. Pye, E.L. Levine, J.V. Moore

Comparison of Normal Piglet Bladder Damage after PDT with Oral or Intravesical Administration of ALA

H.J. van Staveren, J.F. Beek, C.W.J. Verlaan, A. Edixhoven, T.M. De Reijke, G. Brutel de la RiviÈRe, W.M. Star

The Ablation Threshold of Er:YAG and Er:YSGG Laser Radiation in Dental Enamel

C. Apel, J. Meister, R.S. Ioana, R. Franzen, P. Hering, N. Gutknecht

Bone Tissue Ablation with sub-µs Pulses of a Q-switch CO2 Laser: Histological Examination of Thermal Side Effects

M.M. Ivanenko, S. Fahimi-Weber, T. Mitra, W. Wierich, P. Hering

Influence of the Pulse Duration of an Er:YAG Laser System on the Ablation Threshold of Dental Enamel

C. Apel, R. Franzen, J. Meister, H. Sarrafzadegan, S. Thelen, N. Gutknecht

Critical Parameters in the Cytotoxicity of Photodynamic Therapy Using a Pulsed Laser

K. Seguchi, S. Kawauchi, Y. Morimoto, T. Arai, H. Asanuma, M. Hayakawa, M. Kikuchi

Selective Photothermal Interaction Using an 805-nm Diode Laser and Indocyanine Green in Gel Phantom and Chicken Breast Tissue

V. G. Liu, T.M. Cowan, S.-W. Jeong, S.L. Jacques, E.C. Lemley, W.R. Chen

Photodynamic Therapy with Photofrin Reduces Invasiveness of Malignant Human Glioma Cells

F. Jiang, M. Chopp, M. Katakowski, K-K. Cho, X. Yang, N. Hochbaum, L. Tong, T. Mikkelsen

Cerebral Vascular Effects of Non-invasive Laserneedles Measured by Transorbital and Transtemporal Doppler Sonography

G. Litscher, D. Schikora

Announcement

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