Investigation of retinal damage during refractive eye surgery

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5688, Issue , 2005, Pages 268-277

  Schumacher, S ^a   Sander, M ^a   Dopke C ^b   Grone A ^b   Ertmer, W ^a   Lubatschowski, H ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

fs laser; fs LASIK; Ophthalmology; Retina damage; Retinal threshold

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ENERGY ABSORPTION; EXCIMER LASERS; EYEGLASSES; SURGERY; TISSUE; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

FS-LASER; FS-LASIK; RETINA DAMAGE; RETINAL THRESHOLD;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

EID: 21844464317     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.588938     Document Type: Conference Paper

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