Potentiation of femtosecond laser intratissue refractive index shaping (IRIS) in the living cornea with sodium fluorescein

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 850-856

  Nagy, Lana J ^a   Ding, Li ^b   Xu, Lisen ^b   Knox, Wayne H ^b   Huxlin, Krystel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN SODIUM; FLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; FEMTOSECOND LASER; INTRATISSUE REFRACTIVE INDEX SHAPING; LASER SURGERY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MICROSCOPY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; ANIMAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; EXCIMER LASER; EYE REFRACTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CATS; CORNEA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCENT DYES; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LASERS, EXCIMER; REFRACTION, OCULAR;

EID: 77449158615     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3901     Document Type: Article

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