Femtosecond laser induced flexibility change of human donor lenses

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 1853-1859

  Schumacher, Silvia ^a   Oberheide, Uwe ^b   Fromm, Michael ^a   Ripken, Tammo ^a   Ertmer, Wolfgang ^a   Gerten, Georg ^b   Wegener, Alfred ^c   Lubatschowski, Holger ^a  

^a LASER ZENTRUM HANNOVER E V   (Germany)

^b Laserforum Koeln eV   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Femtosecond laser; Lentotomy; Presbyopia; Ultrashort laser

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CILIARY MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LENS CAPSULE; LENS IMPLANT; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRESBYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY; THICKNESS;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; AGED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESBYOPIA; RHEOLOGY; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349229108     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.04.028     Document Type: Article

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