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Front Cover: Analysis of major elements in pigmented melanocytic chicken skin using laser‐induced breakdown spectroscopy (J. Biophotonics 4/2017)
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of biophotonics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.877
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1864-0648
pISSN - 1864-063X
DOI - 10.1002/jbio.201770040
Subject(s) - biophotonics , laser , front cover , nevus , dermatology , melanocytic nevus , ablation , laser ablation , materials science , cover (algebra) , medicine , pathology , optics , melanoma , cancer research , physics , mechanical engineering , engineering
Ablative laser removal of melanocytic nevus is an established procedure in skin therapy for esthetic and therapeutic purposes. A complete removal of nevus during these procedures is critical for the prevention of recurrence or development into other forms of skin problem. This illustration shows that an in‐situ distinction of darkly pigmented skin tissue such as nevus from the surrounding normal tissue is possible during laser ablation by detecting the spectral intensity of constituent tissue element from the laser plasma. Further details can be found in the article by Jong Jin Lee et al. on pp. 523–531.