ArticleBiomedical optics express2018
Mid-infrared Lasers for Medical Applications: introduction to the feature issue.
Article in Biomedical optics express, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Decaffeination and improvement of taste, flavor and health safety of coffee and tea using mid-infrared wavelength rays.Heliyon · 2022Article
- Femtosecond tunable solitons up to 4.8 µm using soliton self-frequency shift in an InFScientific reports · 2022Article
- Fabrication of a Chalcogenide Glass Microlens Array for Infrared Laser Beam Homogenization.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
This feature issue contains a series of papers that report the most recent advances in the field of mid-infrared light sources used for medical applications, including tissue imaging, reconstruction, excision, and ablation. Many biomolecular compounds have strong resonances in the mid-infrared region and medicine is ideally suited to exploit this. The precision, sterility, and versatility of light in mid-infrared is opening more opportunities and this feature issue captures some of the most exciting.
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