Effects of laser repetition rate on corneal tissue ablation for 193-nm excimer laser light

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 483-493

  Shanyfelt, Leia M ^a   Dickrell, Pamela L ^a   Edelhauser, Henry F ^b   Hahn, David W ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collagen; Interferometry; LASIK; Plume; PRK; Refractive; TEM

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBRIL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA SURGERY; COW; DYNAMICS; EXCIMER LASER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERFEROMETRY; KERATOMILEUSIS; LASER REPETITION RATE; LASER SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PLUME DISPERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMAL INJURY; TISSUE STRUCTURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CORNEA; LASER THERAPY; LASERS, EXCIMER;

EID: 51849144539     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20656     Document Type: Article

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