Applanation-free femtosecond laser processing of the cornea

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1-9

  Miclea, Manuela ^a   Skrzypczak, Ulrich ^a   Fankhauser, Frank ^b   Faust, Sebastian ^a   Graener, Heinrich ^c   Seifert, Gerhard ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b Augenzentrum Fankhauser AG   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

EX-VIVO; FEMTOSECOND LASER PROCESSING; FEMTOSECONDS; LABORATORY DEVICES; LIQUID LAYER; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SIDE-CHANNEL; STANDARD DEVIATION;

LASER SURGERY;

SUIDAE;

EID: 84862136671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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