Aqueous humor outflow effects of partial thickness channel created by a femtosecond laser in ex vivo human eyes

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6435, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Chai, Dongyul ^a   Chaudhary, Gautam ^a   Kurtz, Ron ^a   Juhasz, Tibor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqueous humor; Glaucoma; Intraocular pressure

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE (IOP); OUTFLOW RATES; PARTIAL THICKNESS CHANNELS; TRABECULAR MESHWORK (TM);

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

EID: 34247364139     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.701416     Document Type: Conference Paper

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