Second-harmonic imaging of cornea after intrastromal femtosecond laser ablation

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 760-766

  Han, Meng ^a   Zickler, Leander ^a   Giese, Guenter ^b   Walter, Matthias ^a   Loesel, Frieder H ^c   Bille, Josef F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c 20/10 Perfect Vision ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

All solid state laser; Cornea; Femtosecond; Imaging; Microscopy; Multiphoton; Second harmonics

Indexed keywords

CELL BIOLOGY; CORNEA; CORNEAL ULTRASTRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; INTRASTROMAL FEMTOSECOND LASER ABLATION; REFRACTIVE SURGICAL; SECOND HARMONIC IMAGING; TISSUE PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOLOGY; COLLAGEN; FLUORESCENCE; LASER ABLATION; LASER SURGERY; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SOLID STATE LASERS; TISSUE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA STROMA; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COLLAGEN; CORNEAL STROMA; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; KERATECTOMY, LASER; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 3543050299     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1756919     Document Type: Article

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