
285Modeling of Laser-Induced Thermal Damage to the Retina and the Cornea
For instance, different degrees of skin burns (redness, edema, thrombosis) can be modeled
with a single set of Arrhenius parameters simply by associating the different degrees of
lesion with appropriate values of Ω (Henriques 1947).
It appears that this rst-order model is appropriate in the range of time and temperatures
under investigation. It is worth mentioning that the timescale at which protein dynamics
occurs is much shorter than the laser exposure in the thermal regime (Day etal. 2002). It
follows that the dynamics of each molecular reaction can be neglected. Fur ...