Femtosecond laser corneal refractive surgery

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3591, Issue , 1999, Pages 209-219

  Kurtz, Ron ^a   Spooner, Greg ^a   Sletten, Karin ^a   Yen, Kim ^a   Sayegh, Samir ^a   Loesel, Frieder ^a   Horvath, Christopher ^a   Liu, Hsia Hua ^a   Elner, Victor ^a   Cabrera, Delia ^a   Meunier, Marie Helene ^a   Sacks, Zachary ^a   Juhasz, Tibor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER PULSES; LIGHT REFRACTION; SCANNING; SHOCK WAVES; VISION;

FEMTOSECOND LASER CORNEAL REFRACTIVE SURGERY;

LASER SURGERY;

EID: 0032650644     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.350566     Document Type: Conference Paper

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