Supernormal vision, high-resolution retinal imaging, multiphoton imaging and nanosurgery of the cornea - A review

Technology and Health Care

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 443-453

  Fankhauser, Franz ^a   Niederer, Peter F ^b   Kwasniewska, Sylwia ^a   Van Der Zypen, Eugen ^c  

^a Lindenhofspital   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aberrometry; Adaptive optics; Femtosecond laser; Nanoresolution; Picosecond laser; Superresolution; Supervision; Wave front correction

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COLOR VISION; CORNEA; CORNEA SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; IMAGING; INFRARED RADIATION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; REVIEW; STIMULUS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISION;

EID: 13444301082     PISSN: 09287329     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/thc-2004-12604     Document Type: Review

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