A New Technology for Applanation Free Corneal Trephination: The Picosecond Infrared Laser (PIRL)

• Stephan J. Linke ,

  ¶‡ These authors are shared first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistrasse 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany, CareVision/Clinica Baviera Germany and Austria, Martinistrasse 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

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• Andreas Frings ,

  * E-mail: afrings@uke.de

  ¶‡ These authors are shared first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistrasse 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

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• Ling Ren,

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761, Hamburg, Germany

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• Amadeus Gomolka,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistrasse 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

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• Udo Schumacher,

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Experimental Morphology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistrasse 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

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• Rudolph Reimer,

  Affiliation Heinrich Pette Institute, Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistrasse 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

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• Nils-Owe Hansen,

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761, Hamburg, Germany

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• Nathan Jowett,

  Affiliations Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistrasse 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

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• Gisbert Richard,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Martinistrasse 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

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• R. J. Dwayne Miller

  Affiliation Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761, Hamburg, Germany

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