Measurement and modeling of thermal transients during Er:YAG laser irradiation of vitreous

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 388-396

  Berger, Jeffrey W ^a,b   Bochow, Thomas W ^a   Talamo, Jonathan H ^a   D'Amico, Donald J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

erbium; heat transfer; infrared; modeling; vitreous

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; ERBIUM YAG LASER; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FIBEROSCOPE; LASER SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VITRECTOMY;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATTLE; LASER SURGERY; LASERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 0030456378     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1996)19:4<388::AID-LSM2>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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