Flexible UV light guiding system for intraocular laser microsurgery

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 353-357

  Schastak, Stanislaw ^a   Yafai, Yousef ^a   Yasukawa, Tsutomu ^a,b   Wang, Yu Sheng ^c   Hillrichs, Georg ^d   Wiedemann, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b KURASHIKI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d University of Applied Sciences Merseburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

5th harmonic Nd:YAG laser; ArF excimer laser; Hollow core waveguide; UV laser; Vitreoretinal surgery

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCIMER LASER; HISTOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; LASER; LIGHT; MICROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE SECTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; LASER SURGERY; MICROSURGERY; NEEDLES; RABBITS; RETINA; SWINE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 34248212226     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20480     Document Type: Article

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