Investigation of selective retina treatment (SRT) by means of 8 ns laser pulses in a rabbit model

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-27

  Framme, Carsten ^a,b   Schuele, Georg ^b   Kobuch, Karin ^a   Flucke, Barbara ^b   Birngruber, Reginald ^b   Brinkmann, Ralf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL LASER CENTER LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiography; Laserphotocoagulation; RPE; SRT; Therapeutic window; Threshold determination

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; EVALUATION; EYE FUNDUS ALBIPUNCTATUS; HISTOLOGY; LASER COAGULATION; NEODYMIUM LASER; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PARAMETER; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RABBIT; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; RETINA SURGERY; SAFETY; SCOTOMA; SELECTIVE RETINA TREATMENT; SLIT LAMP; TIME;

ANIMALS; LASER COAGULATION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; RABBITS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38949148271     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20592     Document Type: Article

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