Photodisruption in the human cornea as a function of laser pulse width

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 653-658

  Kurtz, Ron M ^a,b   Liu, Xinbing ^b   Elner, Victor M ^a   Squier, Jeffrey A ^b   Du, Detao ^b   Mourou, Gerard A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEA SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER; LASER SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE INJURY;

CORNEA; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031466242     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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