Laser-induced retinal damage threshold measurements with wavefront correction

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Lund, Brian J ^a,b   Lund, David J ^b   Esdall, Peter R ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b USAF   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optic (AO); Laser; Laser damage threshold; Retina; Wavefront correction

Indexed keywords

ABERRATION CORRECTION; ADAPTIVE OPTICS SYSTEMS; HIGHER ORDER; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; INCIDENT LASER; INTRAOCULAR; LASER DAMAGE THRESHOLD; LASER INDUCED; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE EXPOSURE; NON-HUMAN PRIMATE; OCULAR ABERRATIONS; REFRACTIVE ERROR; RETINA; RETINAL DAMAGE; SMALL SPOTS; SPOT SIZES; VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS; WAVEFRONT CORRECTION;

WAVEFRONTS;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

PRIMATES; PUNCTUM MINUTISSIMUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; KERATOMETRY; LASER; LD 50; MACACA; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; RETINOSCOPE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LETHAL DOSE 50; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; RETINOSCOPES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 62449161673     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3013455     Document Type: Article

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