fs-lentotomie: Changing the accommodation amplitude of presbyopic human lenses by fs laser pulses

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6632, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Schumacher, S ^a   Oberheide, U ^b   Theuer, H ^a   Fromm, M ^a   Ripken, T ^a   Gerten, G ^b   Ertmer, W ^a   Lubatschowski, H ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^b Laserforum eV   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Fs laser; Fs lentotomie; Ophthalmology; Presbyopia

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HARDENING; LASER SURGERY; LENSES; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

ACCOMMODATION; AUTOPSY; FISHER'S SPINNING TEST; FS-LENTOTOMIE; PRESBYOPIA; SCLEROSIS;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

EID: 36348962418     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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