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Human beings have suffered from kidney stone problems since 7000 BC. Despite advances in treatment, incidence of renal stone disorder has increased over the past few decades. Lasers have been used to ...

The first medical application of lasers was reported by Goldman in 1962. In cardiovascular surgery, McGuff first used a Ruby laser in 1963 for the experimental ablation of atherosclerotic plaques. After a ...

Adaptive optics is a technology to compensate for distortions in an imaging system. It typically uses a deformable mirror, that deforms to adjust for incoming distortion as the image is taken. It has been ...

Virtual Reality (VR) has shown promise in displaying complex images in an immersive way. The Army, Air Force, and various police departments across the U.S. use VR to create training programs for ...

Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna and TU Wien look to optimize optical neuroimaging with their innovative BRAD-OCT technique. Their method, published in the June edition of Biomedical Optics ...

A new paper details the potential use of nanowire arrays as artificial photoreceptors. The Zhongshan Hospital-affiliate team from Fudan University in Shanghai observed visual responses in blind mice fitted ...

A new study presents a novel approach to imaging the human cornea. The research team at the Langevin Institute in Paris says their optical coherence tomography device is the first capable of full-field in ...

Introduction to Prisms Even as early as in the 13th century, six-sided crystals of natural quartz were used to generate rainbows. In the late 1660s, people believed that color was a mixture of lightness ...

Adaptive Optics Introduction The field of optics studies the behavior of light – a form of substance with a characteristic wavelengths ranging from about 400 to 700 nanometers for visible light to as ...

A Dilemma of Choices If you are suffering from vision degradation like myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism, you are probably considering LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) cornea surgery, so as to ...