FEM simulation of the human lens compared to ex-vivo porcine lens cutting pattern: A possible treatment of presbyopia

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6138, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ripken, T ^a   Breitenfeld, P ^a   Fromm, M ^a   Oberheide, U ^b   Gerten, G ^b   Lubatschowski, H ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^b Laserforum Köln eV ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Finite Element Method; Presbyopia; Ultrashort Laser

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; TISSUE;

ACCOMMODATION; LENS DEFORMABILITY; PRESBYOPIA; ULTRASHORT LASER;

INTRAOCULAR LENSES;

EID: 33745383108     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.646635     Document Type: Conference Paper

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