Modeling laser treatment of port wine stains with a computer‐reconstructed biopsy

The efficacy of laser treatment of port wine stains (PWS) has been shown to be highly dependent on patient‐specific vasculature. The effect of tissue structure on optical and thermal mechanisms was investigated for different pulse durations by using a novel theoretical model that incorporates tissue morphology reconstructed tomographically from a PWS biopsy.

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