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Early in the course of our experiments on the biomedical effects of laser, it was found that the pigmented tissues showed more necrosis from the laser than non-pigmented tissues. This was observed also by Rounds with his studies of laser radiation of tissue cultures and by many observers in laser radiation of animals. Since laser is light, it was expected that dark masses would absorb more laser energy and, as a result, suffer greater degrees of damage. In our studies, colored tissues show more extensive necrosis with ruby, neodymium and CW argon lasers.
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Goldman, L. (1967). Physiologic Pigments and Dyes for Increased Absorption of Laser Energy. In: Biomedical Aspects of the Laser. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85797-3_9
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