Analysis of thulium fiber laser induced bubble dynamics for ablation of kidney stones
- 10 August 2016
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Biophotonics
- Vol. 10 (10), 1240-1249
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jbio.201600010
Abstract
Image of bubble formation during fiber optic delivery of Thulium fiber laser energy in saline (35 mJ, 500 μs).Keywords
Funding Information
- summer undergraduate research fellowship from the Charlotte Research Scholars Program at UNC-Charlotte
- Lucille P. and Edward C. Giles Dissertation Year Graduate Fellowship Award from the Graduate School at UNC-Charlotte
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