Femtosecond laser nanoaxotomy properties and their effect on axonal recovery in C. elegans

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 8521-8531

  Bourgeois, Frederic ^a   Ben Yakar, Adela ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER ABLATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SURGERY;

DAMAGE THRESHOLD; ENERGY PULSES; NANOAXOTOMY; NANOSURGERY;

ULTRASHORT PULSES;

EID: 34547206124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.008521     Document Type: Article

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