It's a pulsed - dye laser that emits light at a wavelength
absorbed by red blood cells, heating up and destroying the blood vessels.
Not exact matches
The researchers created the nanosponges
by separating the membranes of human
red blood cells from their internal contents and stabilizing the membranes with an engineered core designed to
absorb the toxins produced
by pathogenic bacteria.
The worms are normally
absorbed by your pet from eating or drinking them and then travel to the large intestine where they can cause inflammation or even anemia (lower number of
red blood cells) from sucking up so much
blood.
In order to optimize the clinical benefits of laser therapy, the wavelength used must be weakly
absorbed by water and melanin within the skin yet strongly
absorbed by hemoglobin (the part of
red blood cells that can be targeted with laser therapy to release oxygen) and the mitochondria (where oxygen is metabolized into energy).