Technical aspects of the wavelight FS200 femtosecond laser

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Mrochen, Michael ^a   Wüllner, Christian ^b   Krause, Johannes ^b   Klafke, Mario ^b   Donitzky, Christof ^b   Seiler, Theo ^a  

^a IROC   (Switzerland)

^b WaveLight GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CORNEA SURGERY; EXCIMER LASER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GAS DIFFUSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSOR; STROMA; SURGEON;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; CORNEA; CORNEAL SURGERY, LASER; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASERS, EXCIMER; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURGICAL FLAPS; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 78449248933     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20100921-12     Document Type: Article

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