Ultraviolet femtosecond laser creation of corneal flap

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 383-389

  Harzic, Ronan Le ^a,b   König, Karsten ^c   Wüllner, Christian ^d   Vogler, Klaus ^d   Donitzky, Christof ^d  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^b JENLAB GMBH   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d WaveLight AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

YTTERBIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL PIG; NONHUMAN; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRAVIOLET FEMTOSECOND CORNEAL REFRACTIVE SURGERY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CORNEAL STROMA; LASER THERAPY; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; SURGICAL FLAPS; SWINE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 65249118246     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20090401-08     Document Type: Article

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