Thresholds for visible lesions in the primate eye produced by ultrashort near-infrared laser pulses

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2343-2349

  Cain, Clarence P ^a   Toth, Cynthia A ^b   Noojin, Gary D ^a   Carothers, Val ^a   Stolarski, David J ^a   Rockwell, Benjamin A ^c  

^a TASC   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY EYE CENTER   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; NEODYMIUM LASER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA INJURY; RHESUS MONKEY;

EID: 0032823088     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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