Fs-laser induced elasticity changes to improve presbyopic lens accommodation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5688, Issue , 2005, Pages 278-287

  Ripken, T ^a   Oberheide, U ^b   Ziltz, C ^a   Ertmer, W ^a   Gerten, G ^b   Lubatschowski, H ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^b Laserforum Köln eV ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Age related; Femtosecond Laser; Lens; Ophthalmology; Presbyopia; Ultrashort Laser Pulses

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; LENSES; MUSCLE; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TISSUE;

ACCOMODATION; AGE-RELATED; FEMTOSECOND LASERS; PRESBYOPIA;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 21844475904     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.588242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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