First in vivo animal studies on intraocular nanosurgery and multiphoton tomography with low-energy 80 MHz near infrared femtosecond laser pulses

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 262-269

  König, Karsten ^a,b   Wang, Bagui ^c   Krauss, Oliver ^c   Riemann, Iris ^a,b   Schubert, Harald ^c   Kirste, Sigrun ^c   Fischer, Peter ^d  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d JENLAB GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye; Femtosecond lasers; LASIK; Multiphoton; Multiphoton tomography; Nanoprocessing

Indexed keywords

EYES; FEMTOSECOND LASERS; LASIK; MULTIPHOTON TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPHOTONS; NANOPROCESSING;

COLLAGEN; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; EXCIMER LASERS; FLUORESCENCE; HISTOLOGY; IONIZATION; LASER PULSES; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PHOTONS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

LASER SURGERY;

EID: 12144249895     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.528287     Document Type: Conference Paper

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