ReviewLasers in medical science2019
Is there a measure for low power laser dose?
Review in Lasers in medical science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Exploring Immediate Photon Effects From 635 nm Light on Mitochondrial Bioenergetics.Journal of biophotonics · 2025Article
- Photobiomodulation by infrared radiation on hallmarks of cancer.Lasers in medical science · 2025Review
- Evaluation of laser-photobiomodulation different irradiation parameters on macrophages (RAW 264.7) inflammatory mediators' production.Lasers in medical science · 2025Article
- Could photobiomodulation be used for treatment of rosacea?Lasers in medical science · 2025Review
- Photobiomodulation on isolated mitochondria at 810 nm: first results on the efficiency of the energy conversion process.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Effects of photobiomodulation by low-power lasers and LEDs on the viability, migration, and invasion of breast cancer cells.Lasers in medical science · 2023Article
- Laser light sources for photobiomodulation: The role of power and beam characterization in treatment accuracy and reliability.PloS one · 2022Article
- Bone repair assessment of critical size defects in rats treated with mineralized bovine bone (Bio-Oss®) and photobiomodulation therapy: a histomorphometric and immunohistochemical study.Lasers in medical science · 2021Article
- Photobiomodulation via multiple-wavelength radiations.Lasers in medical science · 2020Review
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Abstract
Low power lasers have been used successfully for treatment of many diseases in soft and bone tissues. Basic and clinical researches have developed quickly being the scientific basis to therapeutic protocols based on these lasers. However, there are difficulties to compare experimental and clinical results obtained from different researchers because a complicated and intricate list of physical and biological parameters should be checked before the irradiation procedures as well as part of these parameters are omitted or inaccurately reported. This review focuses on the physical and biological parameters proposed to make experimental and clinical protocols accurate and reproducible as well as suggests dose parameters based on biological effects induced by low power lasers. A variety of parameters are reported by different authors and the number of parameter suggested could overcome three dozens. Thus, laser dose and laser dose equivalent are defined based on laser-induced biological effects and suggested as simplified dose parameters for low power lasers. These parameters could simplify and be useful to researchers and clinicians, permitting comparisons and decreasing mistakes and inaccuracies when laser-induced effects are evaluated and compared with those obtained in previous studies. The laser dose and laser dose equivalent could contribute significantly to improve accuracy, effectiveness, and safety of clinical protocols based on low power lasers.
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