Lasers in Medicine

The discussions convey enough basic information to enable readers to assess a laser's usefulness for a specific purpose and to understand it limitations.Specialists mainly from the experimental side of the physical sciences set out the basics of laser interaction with tissue and describe how these basics have been applied in some of the medical specialties. The anthology was inspired by thoughts that clinicians would use lasers more if they knew about the potential applications that were available to them, and that those using lasers need to know some basic principles from physical science to understand the opportunities and limitations of lasers and optical science as they use the shiny devices they have acquired. Among the topics are dosimetry and thermal monitoring, ultraviolet radiation, tissue diagnosis, low-power effects, applications in ophthalmology and cardiology, and photodynamic therapy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)