Intrastromal cutting effects in rabbit cornea using femtosecond laser pulses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4161, Issue , 2000, Pages 52-60

  Heisterkamp, Alexander ^a   Ripken, Tammo ^a   Lubatschowski, Holger ^a   Welling, Herbert ^a   Lütkefels, Elke ^b   Drommer, Wolfgang ^b   Ertmer, Wolfgang ^c  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intrastromal; LASIK; Photodisruption; Refractive surgery; Ultrashort laser pulses

Indexed keywords

BUBBLE FORMATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENERGY TRANSFER; LASER SURGERY; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTODISSOCIATION;

ENDOTHELIUM; FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY; INTRASTROMAL CUTTING EFFECTS; PHOTODISRUPTION; PORCINE EYE GLOBES; PRESSURE TRANSIENTS; PULSE DURATION; RABBIT CORNEA; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; THRESHOLD ENERGY;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 0034587030     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.409337     Document Type: Article

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