title: Temperature distributions in laser-heated biological tissue with application to birthmark removal.
abstract: The time-dependent temperature distributions produced within thermally homogeneous media heated by a moving laser beam with Gaussian and uniform power density profiles are examined using a time-domain method based on Green's functions. Regions of finite length, width, and depth within the medium having exponential power absorption are considered. The temperature distribution is written as a single integral with respect to time of simple functions and the resulting expressions have been used to model the heating of blood vessels for birthmark (port-wine stain) removal. The temperature distributions obtained are in good agreement with those produced using Monte Carlo optical and finite difference thermal models.
authors.affiliation: University of Exeter, School of Engineering and Computer Science, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Loze
authors.forename: C D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Wright
mesh_terms: D062109:Dermatologic Surgical Procedures; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D019339:Port-Wine Stain / Q000601:surgery*; D012881:Skin Temperature; D013696:Temperature