Solar surgery on chicken breast. The same tissue transformations and
lesion sizes attainable with common laser fiber-optic surgical units
are generated here with highly concentrated sunlight, indoors, under
controlled conditions.
The unit for collecting solar radiation outdoors. Then the light is
sent by optical fiber into an indoors surgical setting.
(Images Courtesy Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Reported by: Gordon
et al., Applied Physics Letters, 30 September 2002
Associated Physics
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