A new Monte Carlo code for absorption simulation of laser-skin tissue interaction

Afshan Shirkavand; Saeed Sarkar; Marjaneh Hejazi; Leila Ataie-Fashtami; Mohammad Reza Alinaghizadeh

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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 5, Issue 4, 238 (2007)

A new Monte Carlo code for absorption simulation of laser-skin tissue interaction

Afshan Shirkavand^1、*, Saeed Sarkar¹, Marjaneh Hejazi^1、2, Leila Ataie-Fashtami^1、2, and Mohammad Reza Alinaghizadeh¹

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¹Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering Department, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

²Research Center for Science and Technology in Medicine, Tehran, Iran

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Afshan Shirkavand, Saeed Sarkar, Marjaneh Hejazi, Leila Ataie-Fashtami, Mohammad Reza Alinaghizadeh. A new Monte Carlo code for absorption simulation of laser-skin tissue interaction[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2007, 5(4): 238 Copy Citation Text

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