Roughness of excimer laser ablated corneas with and without smoothing measured with atomic force microscopy

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 469-475

  Lombardo, Marco ^a,b,d   De Santo, Maria P ^c   Lombardo, Giuseppe ^c   Barberi, Riccardo ^c   Serrao, Sebastiano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

^b Serraolaser   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^d NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALANCED SALT SOLUTION; GLUTARALDEHYDE; HYALURONIC ACID;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA STROMA; EXCIMER LASER; NONHUMAN; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SWINE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 25144485898     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081-597x-20050901-08     Document Type: Article

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