HEATING OF INTRAOCULAR MEDIA BY NEAR
IR LASER RADIATION

A. S. Podol'tseva and G. I. Zheltovb

UDC 621.378:612.085.1

The temperature fields in the refractive eye tissues at 
a different focusing of near IR laser radiation have been determined 
numerically. Depending on the focusing and the radiation wavelength, 
the levels and regions of localization of the maximum heating of intraocular 
media have been calculated. New prospects of using these lasers in 
ophthalmology have been contemplated and the necessity of additional 
studies of the conditions for their safe use is shown.

aA. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National Academy of Sciences 
of Belarus, Minsk; bB. I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, National Academy 
of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 75, No. 4, pp. 154-159, July-August, 2002. Original 
article submitted November 27, 2002.

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