Interplay of wavelength, fluence and spot-size in free-electron laser ablation of cornea

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 9840-9850

  Hutson, M Shane ^a   Ivanov, Borislav ^a   Jayasinghe, Aroshan ^a   Adunas, Gilma ^a   Xiao, Yaowu ^a   Guo, Mingsheng ^b   Kozub, John ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FISK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; FREE ELECTRON LASERS; LASER ABLATION; TISSUE; WATER ABSORPTION;

COLLATERAL DAMAGE; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION; ETCH DEPTH; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; INFRARED FREE ELECTRON LASERS; MULTI-STEP; PULSE ABLATION; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCE;

ELECTRONS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORNEA; ELECTRON; HISTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SWINE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORNEA; CORNEAL SURGERY, LASER; ELECTRONS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE;

EID: 66849132416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.009840     Document Type: Article

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