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Mid-infrared Lasers for Medical Applications: introduction to the feature issue
Fatima Toor1,2,3, Stuart Jackson4, Xiaoming Shang5
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA.
Abstract:
This feature issue contains a series of papers that report the most recent advances in the field of mid-infrared light sources used for medical applications, including tissue imaging, reconstruction, excision, and ablation. Many biomolecular compounds have strong resonances in the mid-infrared region and medicine is ideally suited to exploit this. The precision, sterility, and versatility of light in mid-infrared is opening more opportunities and this feature issue captures some of the most exciting.
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