Abstract
Although excimer lasers have been extensively used to ablate tissue and show excellent properties for precise and controllable material removal, quantitative understanding of the interaction is far from complete.1 For example, in many cases it is not clear whether ablation proceeds by a true ablative photodecomposition process or simply a highly localized thermal reaction. One method of studying the pulsed UV laser–tissue interaction which provides useful quantitative data is based on measurements using nanosecond photoacoustic transducers.2,3 This paper extends previous work using this technique and reports new results on the ablation of corneal and vascular tissue.
© 1988 Optical Society of America
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