Selective cell killing by microparticle absorption of pulse laser radiation

With increasing use of short pulse lasers in medicine and biology, there is growing need to understand how short pulse laser radiation interacts with cells at the microscopic level. Detailed understanding of the interaction mechanism leading to cell damage is important not only for developing new biomedical applications of lasers but also for laser safety considerations. Inhomogeneities exist at all levels in biologic tissue from the macroscopic to the subcellular scale