Measurement of small-signal absorption coefficient and absorption cross section of collagen for 193-nm excimer laser light and the role of collagen in tissue ablation

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 29, 2004, Pages 5443-5451

  Fisher, Brian T ^a   Hahn, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATIVE MATERIALS; ABSORPTION; AMINO ACIDS; COMPOSITION; EXCIMER LASERS; IRRADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS;

BOND DENSITY; LASER LIGHT; LASER TRANSMISSION; TISSUE ABLATION;

LASER BEAMS;

COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LASER; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; LASERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 7544231078     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005443     Document Type: Article

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