Laser-Tissue Interaction XIV Book

	Conference Committees
	Specific anti-tumor immune response with photodynamic therapy mediated by benzoporphyrin derivative and chlorin(e6)	1
	Progress in the development of photodynamic-therapy-generated cancer vaccines	10
	Anti-tumor immunity induced by local photothermal-immunoadjuvant therapy in a poorly immunogenic metastatic tumor model	18
	Methods to optimize selective hyperthermia	24
	Temperature control in interstitial laser cancer immunotherapy	32
	Material ejection in free-running Er:YAG laser ablation of water, liver, and skin	40
	Material ejection in Q-switched Er:YAG laser ablation of water, liver, and skin	48
	Laser-tissue interaction with fs pulses: measurement of the recoil momentum by laser Doppler vibrometry	60
	Kinetics of phase transitions in pulsed IR laser ablation of biological tissues	66
	A comparison of Yucatan mini-pig and Yorkshire pig skin response to 1318-nm laser pulses	75
	Utilizing Yucatan mini-pigs for 1318-nm skin exposure Ed[subscript 50] determination	81
	Porcine dermal lesions produced by 1.3-[mu]m laser pulses	86
	Model predictions and measured skin damage thresholds for 1.54-[mu]m laser pulses in porcine skin	90
	Melanin and the cellular effects of ultrashort-pulse near-infrared laser radiation	97
	The thermal dissociation of cholesterol esters using a 5.75-[mu]m free-electron laser	106
	Optical modeling of cylindrical light sources within tissue	114
	Light propagation in biological tissue	122
	Backscattering of circularly polarized pulses	130
	Mueller matrix optical imaging with application to tissue diagnostics	137
	Interpretation of Mueller matrix images based on polar decomposition and statistical discriminators to distinguish skin cancer	147
	Bioluminescence imaging as a market for cellular Hsp70 response to thermal laser injury	153
	Dynamic measurement of blood flow with optical methods	165
	Dehydration effect on optical properties of porcine liver	174
	Temporal shape of high-irradiance pulse influence on biological tissue disruption	182
	Strain and mechanical behavior measurements of soft tissues with digital speckle method	191
	Maximum-likelihood estimators for one- and two-dimensional speckle motion	202
	Acousto-optical assessment of skin viscoelasticity	209
	Biomechanical characterization of tissue-engineered cartilages by photoacoustic measurement	221
	Dental hard tissue characterization using laser-based ultrasonics	226
	Image-based biomimetic modeling and its application in computer-aided tissue engineering	232
	Optical system to characterize the gross contractile response of a tissue-equivalent collagen matrix	244
	Lifetime fluorescence spectroscopy for in situ investigation of osteogenic differentiation	250
	Addendum	259
	Author Index	261