Suitability of Filofocon A and PMMA for experimental models in excimer laser ablation refractive surgery

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20955-20967

  Dorronsoro, Carlos ^a   Siegel, Jan ^a   Remon, Laura ^a   Marcos, Susana ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; EXCIMER LASERS; LASER ABLATION; LASER SURGERY; SURGERY;

ABLATION PROPERTIES; ABLATION THRESHOLDS; ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; APPROPRIATE MATERIALS; CONTACT LENS MATERIAL; EFFECTIVE ABSORPTION; SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENTS; THEORETICAL APPROACH;

ABLATION;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORNEA; EXCIMER LASER; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORNEA; CORNEAL SURGERY, LASER; HUMANS; LASERS, EXCIMER; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE;

EID: 57349088214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020955     Document Type: Article

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