title: Physical considerations of surgical lasers.
abstract: Surgical lasers fulfill a needed niche in the less invasive surgical market. An understanding of the fundamentals of lasers and their interaction with tissues are important prerequisites to the understanding of the clinical effects of these devices. This article provides these requisites.
authors.affiliation: Surgical Laser Technologies, Inc., Oaks, Pennsylvania.
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Fuller
mesh_terms: D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D005260:Female; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy; D007834:Lasers; D011827:Radiation