Femtosecond laser photodisruption of human trabecular meshwork: An in vitro study

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 298-305

  Toyran, Sami ^a   Liu, Yaoming ^a   Singha, Sima ^a   Shan, Sun ^b   Cho, Michael R ^b   Gordon, Robert J ^a   Edward, Deepak P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

Femtosecond laser; Laser sclerostomy; Laser trabecular ablation; Trabecular meshwork

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; ENERGY TRANSFER; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATOPLASTY; LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERA; SURFACE PROPERTY;

FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; TIME FACTORS; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; TRABECULECTOMY;

EID: 23944516552     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2005.02.001     Document Type: Article

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