Retinal damage and laser-induced breakdown produced by ultrashort-pulse lasers

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 234, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1996, Pages

  Cain, Clarence P ^a   DiCarlo, Cheryl D ^b   Rockwell, Benjamin A ^c   Kennedy, Paul K ^c   Noojin, Gary D ^a   Stolarski, David J ^a   Hammer, Daniel X ^c   Toth, Cynthia A ^d   Roach, W P ^e  

^a TASC   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Armstrong Laboratory   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY EYE CENTER   (United States)

^e AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; MEASUREMENT; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; RABBIT; RETINA INJURY; VIDEORECORDING; VITREOUS BODY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LASERS; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RABBITS; RETINA; RETINAL HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0029793049     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02343045     Document Type: Article

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