Subsurface photodisruption in scattering biological tissue

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4162, Issue , 2000, Pages 20-29

  Sacks, Zachary S ^a   Spooner, Greg J R ^a   Kurtz, Ron M ^a   Juhasz, Tibor ^a   Mourou, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Femtosecond; Glaucoma; Inducing transparency; Laser; Photodisruption; Sclera; Skin

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; LASER BEAMS; SKIN; SURGERY; TRANSPARENCY;

FEMTOSECOND LASERS; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN SCLERA; PHOTODISRUPTION; SUBSURFACE SURGERY;

TISSUE;

EID: 0034586902     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.405935     Document Type: Conference Paper

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