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Laser stands for what? - ✔✔Light
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Amplification by ||
Stimulated
Emission of ||
Radiation
What is the distance measured in nanometers between two peaks or two troughs known as? -
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✔✔Wavelength
Light of only one color & one specific wavelength is known as? - ✔✔Monochromatic
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Refraction is also known as what? - ✔✔Transmission
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The process where by a newly created photon of light (generated through amplification)
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acquires energy equal to the photons that created it is known as? - ✔✔Stimulated Emission
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The states of equilibrium or middle state of light - ✔✔Metastable State
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Who theorized stimulated emission? - ✔✔Albert Einstein
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The part of the laser that contains the active medium is called? - ✔✔Resinator cavity
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What are the states of light in stimulated emission? - ✔✔Ground State
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,Excited State ||
Singlet State ||
Metastable State ||
Alexandrite laer is in the visible light spectrum at what wavelength? - ✔✔755 nm
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The Nd:YAG laser falls in the invisible light spectrum with a wavelength of what? - ✔✔1064
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What type of wave is used in laser hair removal? - ✔✔Pulsed wave
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A chromophore is also know at what? - ✔✔Target
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The chromophore absorbs what? - ✔✔Energy
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Goggles worn by the patient and practitioner must be approved by which group? - ✔✔ANSI
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(American National Standard Institute) for Class 3B and Class 4 Lasers
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Each laser wavelength is what to its machine? - ✔✔Specific
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What are the parameters when doing laser hair removal? - ✔✔Wavelength
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Spot Size ||
Fluence
Pulse Width ||
Pulsed lasers allow for selective heating of specific targets, this is also known as? -
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✔✔Selective Photothermolysis ||
,The rate/amount of energy delivered within a given area is known as? - ✔✔Fluence
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An increase in fluence equals an increase in what? - ✔✔Heat. Resulting in more damage
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The length of time the light/energy is in contact with the target that is measured in
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milliseconds (ms): - ✔✔Pulse width/Pulse duration || || || || ||
If the time of pulse duration is changed from milliseconds to nanoseconds the laser is what? -
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✔✔Q Switched ||
A Q switched laser is used for what? - ✔✔Tattoo removal
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Which skin types can tolerate an Alex laser? - ✔✔1-4
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Which skin types can tolerate a Nd:YAG laser? - ✔✔All skin types
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Which skin type should only have electrolysis and no laser? - ✔✔Type 1
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If the pulse width is greater than the thermal relaxation time it results in? - ✔✔A burn
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If the pulse width is less than or equal to the thermal relaxation time it results in? - ✔✔Perfect
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Larger structures have __________ thermal relaxation times (TRT) - ✔✔Longer
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Smaller structures have _______ thermal relaxation times (TRT) - ✔✔Shorter
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, What kind of pulse widths protect the epidermis, penetrate deeper and cool more slowly? -
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✔✔Long
Longer pulse widths are for what skin type? - ✔✔4-6
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What kind of pulse widths are more aggressive and heat up and cool down quickly? -
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✔✔Short
Shorter pulse widths are for what skin type? - ✔✔1-3
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What percentage of follicles are damaged with each laser treatment? - ✔✔15%
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What is a long-term stable reduction of the growing hairs after a treatment regime? -
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✔✔Laser Hair Removal (LHR)
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What does the FDA call laser hair removal? - ✔✔Permanent hair reduction
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What is the highest setting the skin can tolerate without damage called? - ✔✔Fluence
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Threshold
What is the highest setting the patient can tolerate without the treatment becoming
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impossible called? - ✔✔Patient Threshold
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The amount of hair per one square centimeter is known as? - ✔✔Hair density
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The higher the hair density, the _______ the fluence? - ✔✔Lower
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