Dynamic impedance measurements during radio-frequency heating of cornea

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 12 I, 2002, Pages 1610-1616

  Choi, Bernard ^a,b   Kim, Jihoon ^a   Welch, Ashley J ^a   Pearce, John A ^c  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cornea; Impedance measurements; Radio frequency; Thermal damage

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; TISSUE CULTURE;

RADIO-FREQUENCY LESIONS;

EYE CONTROLLED DEVICES;

ION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EYE; FEMALE; HEATING; HYPERMETROPIA; IMPEDANCE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; RADIOFREQUENCY; SWINE; VAPORIZATION;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HEAT; HYPEROPIA; RADIO WAVES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

EID: 0036932909     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2002.805471     Document Type: Article

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