Summary and Conclusions

Abstract

As one attempts to review the data on the biomedical applications of the laser, one finds much of it, especially as applied to medicine, to be preliminary probing and consequently, incomplete. At least at the present time, a wide range of laser instrumentation and wide range of outputs are being investigated. These include the following: (1) the ruby; (2) the neodymium; (3) the argon; (4) the krypton; (5) the carbon dioxide; (6) the helium-neon and (7) ultra-violet. Lasers attached to microscopes are used in cytological and cytogenetic studies, research in embryology holography and in laser probe spectroscopy. In the field of biochemistry, the laser is available as a specialized high energy light instrument for all experiments in photochemistry in the synthesis of new compounds for basic studies in cellular morphology, including effects on DNA, RNA, enzyme systems, lysozymes, etc. Laser photography, especially holography, promises much for the future.