Time-resolved observations of shock waves and cavitation bubbles generated by femtosecond laser pulses in corneal tissue and water

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-31

  Juhasz, Tibor ^a,b   Kastis, George A ^a   Suárez, Carlos ^a   Bor, Zsolt ^a,c   Bron, Walter E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Intelligent Surgical Lasers   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

femtosecond lasers; intraocular surgery; intrastromal photorefractive keratectomy; laser generated shock waves and cavitation bubbles in cornea and water; laser tissue interactions; time resolved flash photography

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CORNEA; DYNAMICS; EYE SURGERY; KERATECTOMY; LASER SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK WAVE;

ABSORPTION; AIR; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CORNEA; CORNEAL STROMA; HIGH-ENERGY SHOCK WAVES; LASER SURGERY; LASERS; PHOTOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 0029846628     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1996)19:1<23::AID-LSM4>3.3.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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