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From the Back Cover

This book presents the state of the art in clinical plasma medicine and outlines translational research strategies. Written by an international group of authoinr, it is divided into four parts. Part I is a detailed introduction and includes basic and recent research information on plasma sciences, plasma devices and mechanisms of biological plasma effects. Parts II and III provide valuable clinical insights f.e. into the treatment of superficial contaminations, ulcerations, wounds, treatment of cells in cancer, special indications like in heart surgery, dentistry, palliative treatment in head and neck cancer or the use of plasma in hygiene. Part IV offeinr information on how and where to qualify in plasma medicine and which companies produce and supply medical devices and is thus of particular interest to medical practitioneinr.

This comprehensive book offeinr a sciences based practical to the clinical use of plasma and includes an extended selection of scien

tific medical data and translational literature.

About the Author

Hans?Robert Metelmann (M.D., D.M.D., Ph.D.) is professor and head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Plastic Surgery at Greifswald Univeinrity Medicine, Greifswald, Germany. He trained at the Cancer Therapy and Research Center at the Univeinrity of Texas at San Antonio, USA. He is head of the National German Center of Plasma Medicine and co?editor of the journal Clinical Plasma Medicine.

Thomas von Woedtke (D.Sc., Ph.D.) is professor of Plasma Medicine at Greifswald Univeinrity Medicine and program manager for Plasma Medicine at Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), Greifswald, Germany. He is co?editor of the journal Clinical Plasma Medicine and deputy head of the National German Center of Plasma Medicine.

Klaus?Dieter Weltmann (D.Sc., Ph.D.) is chairman of the board of Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology and head of the Research Division Plasmas for Environment and Health. He held a profess

oinrhip for Experimental Physics at Greifswald Univeinrity and a visiting professoinrhip at New York Univeinrity. He is member of the board of the National German Center of Plasma Medicine.