21世紀へ向けてのレーザー医学の動向

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Lasers have been employed in various medical fields, such as photocoagulation therapy, high energy therapy, shock wave therapy, pho-todynamic therapy, low energy therapy and even acupuncture. Among these particularly significant developments were seen in photo-dynamic therapy and laser angioplasty. In the near future photodynamic therapy will bcome one of the main approaches to the non-surgical treatment of cancer, while diseases of the coronary artery will be treated with laser angioplasty, especially with photody-namic therapy. In future we intend to estab-lish National Medical Laser Center.