TY - CHAP AU - Adriana Smarandache AU - Javier Moreno Moraga AU - Angela Staicu AU - Mario Trelles AU - Mihail-Lucian Pascu ED - Dan C. Dumitras Y1 - 2012-03-09 PY - 2012 T1 - Applications of Polidocanol in Varicose Vein Treatment Assisted by Exposure to Nd:YAG Laser Radiation N2 - Discovered almost fifty years ago at Bell Labs (1964), the Nd:YAG laser has undergone an enormous evolution in the years, being now widely used in both basic research and technological applications. Nd:YAG Laser covers a wide range of topics, from new systems (diode pumping, short pulse generation) and components (a new semiorganic nonlinear crystal) to applications in material processing (coating, welding, polishing, drilling, processing of metallic thin films), medicine (treatment, drug administration) and other various fields (semiconductor nanotechnology, plasma spectroscopy, laser induced breakdown spectroscopy). BT - Nd YAG Laser SP - Ch. 12 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/34654 DO - 10.5772/34654 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-05-11 ER -