Femtosecond-Laser Assisted Surgery of the Eye: Overview and Impact of the Low-Energy Concept

This article provides an overview of both established and innovative applications of femtosecond (fs)-laser-assisted surgical techniques in ophthalmology. Fs-laser technology is unique because it allows cutting tissue at very high precision inside the eye. Fs lasers are mainly used for surgery of th...

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Autores principales: Latz, Catharina, Asshauer, Thomas, Rathjen, Christian, Mirshahi, Alireza
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7912418/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33498878
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi12020122
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Asshauer, Thomas
Rathjen, Christian
Mirshahi, Alireza
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description This article provides an overview of both established and innovative applications of femtosecond (fs)-laser-assisted surgical techniques in ophthalmology. Fs-laser technology is unique because it allows cutting tissue at very high precision inside the eye. Fs lasers are mainly used for surgery of the human cornea and lens. New areas of application in ophthalmology are on the horizon. The latest improvement is the high pulse frequency, low-energy concept; by enlarging the numerical aperture of the focusing optics, the pulse energy threshold for optical breakdown decreases, and cutting with practically no side effects is enabled.
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spelling pubmed-79124182021-02-28 Femtosecond-Laser Assisted Surgery of the Eye: Overview and Impact of the Low-Energy Concept Latz, Catharina Asshauer, Thomas Rathjen, Christian Mirshahi, Alireza Micromachines (Basel) Review This article provides an overview of both established and innovative applications of femtosecond (fs)-laser-assisted surgical techniques in ophthalmology. Fs-laser technology is unique because it allows cutting tissue at very high precision inside the eye. Fs lasers are mainly used for surgery of the human cornea and lens. New areas of application in ophthalmology are on the horizon. The latest improvement is the high pulse frequency, low-energy concept; by enlarging the numerical aperture of the focusing optics, the pulse energy threshold for optical breakdown decreases, and cutting with practically no side effects is enabled. MDPI 2021-01-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7912418/ /pubmed/33498878 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi12020122 Text en © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Femtosecond-Laser Assisted Surgery of the Eye: Overview and Impact of the Low-Energy Concept
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi12020122
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