Retinal thermal laser damage thresholds for different beam profiles and scanned exposure

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6844, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Schulmeister, Karl ^a   Gilber, Reinhard ^a   Seiser, Bernhard ^a   Edthofer, Florian ^a   Husinsky, Johannes ^a   Fekete, Beate ^a   Farmer, Letizia ^a  

^a ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

ANSI Z136.1; Computer model; ICNIRP; IEC 60825 1; Laser safety; MPE; Retinal thermal injury; Threshold

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER DAMAGE; OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTER MODELS; ICNIRP; RETINAL THERMAL INJURY; TIME DEPENDENCE;

LASER SAFETY;

EID: 43949097940     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.768671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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