Visualization of femtosecond laser pulse-induced microincisions inside crystalline lens tissue

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1979-1983

  Stachs, Oliver ^a   Schumacher, Silvia ^a   Hovakimyan, Marine ^a   Fromm, Michael ^a   Heisterkamp, Alexander ^a   Lubatschowski, Holger ^a   Guthoff, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; GERMANY; INCISION; LENS; LENS FIBER; MICROINCISION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LASER THERAPY; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSURGERY;

EID: 72049128576     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2009.06.019     Document Type: Article

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