Surgery – Instruments – Light application
Patent
1993-07-27
1995-03-14
Pellegrino, Stephen C.
Surgery
Instruments
Light application
606 19, 606 18, A61B 1736, G02B 508
Patent
active
053973275
ABSTRACT:
A slit incision handpiece that receives a circular laser beam, reshapes the beam to have an elliptical cross-section, and focuses the beam onto target tissue. Slit incisions of approximately the dimensions of the elliptical beam are formed by stationary exposures on the target tissue from the output of the slit incision handpiece.
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Arnett Michael
Koop Dale E.
Coherent Inc.
Harris Sonya C.
Pellegrino Stephen C.
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