Diabetic macular edema: current understanding, molecular mechanisms and therapeutic implications

J Zhang, J Zhang, C Zhang, J Zhang, L Gu, D Luo… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Diabetic retinopathy (DR), with increasing incidence, is the major cause of vision loss and
blindness worldwide in working-age adults. Diabetic macular edema (DME) remains the …

[HTML][HTML] Visible solid-state lasers based on Pr3+ and Tb3+

H Tanaka, S Kalusniak, M Badtke, M Demesh… - Progress in Quantum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Visible lasers are sought for in a variety of applications. They are required in fields as
diverse as medicine, materials processing, display and entertainment technology and many …

Photoplethysmography in wearable devices: a comprehensive review of technological advances, current challenges, and future directions

KB Kim, HJ Baek - Electronics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Photoplethysmography (PPG) is an affordable and straightforward optical technique used to
detect changes in blood volume within tissue microvascular beds. PPG technology has …

A review of subthreshold micropulse laser for treatment of macular disorders

P Scholz, L Altay, S Fauser - Advances in Therapy, 2017 - Springer
Micropulse laser treatment is an alternative to the conventional continuous-wave laser for
the treatment of retinal or macular diseases. In contrast to the conventional laser, the …

Vascular targeting in photodynamic occlusion of subretinal vessels

U Schmidt-Erfurth, T Hasan, E Gragoudas, N Michaud… - Ophthalmology, 1994 - Elsevier
Purpose: To evaluate the potential of photodynamic therapy (PDT) using benzoporphyrin
derivative (BPD) for occlusion of subretinal neovascular membranes, the authors studied …

Decreasing retinal photocoagulation damage: principles and techniques

MA Mainster - Seminars in ophthalmology, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
Conventional suprathreshold retinal photocoagulation is a destructive procedure, but
chorioretinal damage can be decreased by changing laser parameters and clinical …

Effect of pulse duration on size and character of the lesion in retinal photocoagulation

AT Jain, MS Blumenkranz, Y Paulus… - Archives of …, 2008 - jamanetwork.com
Objective To systematically evaluate the effects of laser beam size, power, and pulse
duration of 1 to 100 milliseconds on the characteristics of ophthalmoscopically visible retinal …

Transpupillary thermotherapy for age-related macular degeneration: long-pulse photocoagulation, apoptosis, and heat shock proteins

MA Mainster, E Reichel - Ophthalmic Surgery, Lasers and …, 2000 - journals.healio.com
* OBJECTIVE: To provide a biophysical foundation for using transpupillary thermotherapy
(TTT) to manage choroidal neovascularization in age-related macular degeneration …

Spectroscopic properties of Tb3+ as an ion for visible lasers

S Kalusniak, E Castellano-Hernández, H Yalçinoğlu… - Applied Physics B, 2022 - Springer
Abstract In recent years, Tb3+-based solid-state lasers with emission in the green and
yellow have seen a revival. This was owed to the availability of blue emitting semiconductor …

Scanning laser ophthalmoscopy retroillumination: applications and illusions

MA Mainster, T Desmettre, G Querques… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Scanning laser ophthalmoscopes (SLOs) are used widely for reflectance, fluorescence or
autofluorescence photography and less commonly for retroillumination imaging. SLOs scan …