Impact of ablation efficiency reduction on post-surgery corneal asphericity: Simulation of the laser refractive surgery with a flying spot laser beam

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 11808-11821

  Kwon, Young ^a   Choi, Myoung ^a   Bott, Steven ^a  

^a Alcon Laboratories Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ASPHERICS; EFFICIENCY; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LASER BEAMS; SURGERY; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

ABLATION ALGORITHMS; ABLATION EFFICIENCY; ABLATION PARAMETERS; ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; CORNEAL ASPHERICITY; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; RIGOROUS SIMULATION; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS;

LASER SURGERY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORNEA; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; REFRACTION ERROR; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORNEA; CORNEAL SURGERY, LASER; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; REFRACTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49149092786     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.011808     Document Type: Article

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