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Physics in Canada / La Physique au Canada - 2010 (66.4)
The Penetration of Lasers and Related Technologies into Clinical Medicine and the Life Sciences
Author(s)
Brian C. Wilson
Institution
University of Toronto and the Ontario Cancer Institute / University Health Network
Since their invention, lasers and related technologies such as fiber optics have penetrated deeply into both specific clinical specialties and into the biomedical research laboratory because of both the multiplicity of interactions between light and biological materials that can be exploited for therapeutic, diagnostic and analytic applications, and the precision and specificity of light delivery that they offer.
