Vanderbilt free-electron-laser project in biomedical and materials research. Annual report, 1 February 1987-31 January 1988

Technical Report · Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1988

OSTI ID:6748059

Haglund, R F; Tolk, N H

The Medical Free Electron Laser Program was awarded to develop, construct and operate a free-electron laser facility dedicated to biomedical and materials studies, with particular emphases on: fundamental studies of absorption and localization of electromagnetic energy on and near material surfaces, especially through electronic and other selective, non-statistical processes; non-thermal photon-materials interactions (e.g., electronic bond-breaking or vibrational energy transfer) in physical and biological materials as well as in long-wavelength biopolymer dynamics; development of FEL-based methods to study drug action and to characterize biomolecular properties and metabolic processes in biomembranes; clinical applications in otolaryngology, neurosurgery, ophthalmology and radiology stressing the use of the laser for selective laser-tissue, laser-cellular and laser-molecule interactions in both therapeutic and diagnostic modalities.

• Research Organization: Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN (USA). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
• OSTI ID: 6748059
• Report Number(s): AD-A-195961/8/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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