Electromagnetic modelling of a human eye exposed to conductive keratoplasty

WIT Transactions on Biomedicine and Health

Volumn 12, Issue , 2007, Pages 223-232

  Peratta, A ^a  

^a WESSEX INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Conductive keratoplasty; Electric field; Human eye

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENERGY ABSORPTION; TISSUE;

CONDUCTIVE KERATOPLASTY; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELLING; HUMAN EYE;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

EID: 38949191351     PISSN: 17433525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2495/BIO070221     Document Type: Conference Paper

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