Temperature controlled co2 laser soldering of pig cornea

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4609, Issue , 2002, Pages 222-228

  Strassmann, Eyal ^a   Loya, Nino ^a   Gaton, Dan D ^a   Ravid, Avi ^b   Kariv, Noam ^b   Weinberger, Dov ^a   Katzir, Abraham ^b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Co2 laser; Controlled temperature welding; Corneal laser soldering; Fiberoptic radiometry; Infrared fibers

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE LASERS; FIBER OPTICS; HISTOLOGY; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; RADIOMETERS; SOLDERING; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THERMOMETERS;

LASER SOLDERING;

LASER SURGERY;

EID: 0036400075     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.433863     Document Type: Article

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