Laser shaping of corneal transplants in vitro: Area ablation with small overlapping laser spots produced by a pulsed scanning laser beam using an optimizing ablation algorithm

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1169-1180

  Homolka, P ^c   Biowski, R ^c   Kaminski, S ^c   Barisani, T ^c   Husinsky, W ^a   Bergmann, H ^c   Grabner, G ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Augenabteilung   (Austria)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; EXCIMER LASER; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; CORNEA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING;

EID: 0032931221     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/44/5/005     Document Type: Article

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