Photobiomodulation or low-level laser therapy

Michael R Hamblin^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Editorial

Michael R Hamblin. J Biophotonics. 2016 Dec.

. 2016 Dec;9(11-12):1122-1124.

doi: 10.1002/jbio.201670113.

Michael R Hamblin^{1

2

3}

¹ Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
² Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

No abstract available

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