title: Physics of laser beam interactions with living tissue.
abstract: This article examines fundamental laser physics and the manner in which the laser transfers energy to the surface of the body and how living cells react. Topics include the significance of absorption and scattering coefficients, assumptions for analysis of laser-beam interactions with living tissue, depth of vaporization of tissue, and mass of tissue vaporized.
authors.affiliation: Straith Hospital for Special Surgery, Southfield, Michigan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Borovoy
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation; D055585:Physical Phenomena; D010825:Physics