This week at the 19th International Congress on Photonics in Europe, a number of events relating to the use of lasers in medicine and the life sciences are taking place. Medical Physics Web has a rundown of some of the technologies from today’s presentations. Specifically, MPW gives focus to photodynamic therapy (PDT), optical coherence tomography (OCT), and the use of “a backscattered light detector (BLD) for visualizing tissue coagulation during MRI-assisted interstitial laser thermotherapy (ILTT).”
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Link: BIOPHOTONICS AND LIFE SCIENCES at LASER World of PHOTONICS 2009
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June 15th, 2009 
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