Kester Nahen

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Kester Nahen is a scholar working on Ophthalmology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kester Nahen has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Ophthalmology, 14 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 13 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Kester Nahen's work include Laser Material Processing Techniques (12 papers), Ocular and Laser Science Research (9 papers) and Laser Applications in Dentistry and Medicine (6 papers). Kester Nahen is often cited by papers focused on Laser Material Processing Techniques (12 papers), Ocular and Laser Science Research (9 papers) and Laser Applications in Dentistry and Medicine (6 papers). Kester Nahen collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Romania. Kester Nahen's co-authors include Alfred Vogel, Emil‐Alexandru Brujan, Peter Keresztes Schmidt, J. Noack, Benjamin A. Rockwell, Daniel X. Hammer, Gary D. Noojin, S. Büsch, Ulrich Parlitz and R. Birngruber and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

In The Last Decade

Kester Nahen

26 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Energy balance of optical breakdown in water at nanosecond to femtosecond time scales

1999 427 citations Alfred Vogel, J. Noack et al. Applied Physics B profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kester Nahen Germany	13	746	739	590	535	274	29	1.7k
J. Noack Germany	17	698 0.9×	1.2k 1.6×	1.2k 2.0×	964 1.8×	614 2.2×	48	3.1k
K. Zimmer Germany	26	562 0.8×	1.1k 1.5×	1.5k 2.5×	774 1.4×	189 0.7×	277	2.9k
Emil‐Alexandru Brujan Romania	24	1.7k 2.3×	1.1k 1.5×	673 1.1×	464 0.9×	58 0.2×	40	2.4k
Nan Zhang China	20	230 0.3×	348 0.5×	448 0.8×	420 0.8×	102 0.4×	132	1.5k
S. Büsch Germany	6	429 0.6×	505 0.7×	346 0.6×	390 0.7×	153 0.6×	13	1.1k
Rok Petkovšek Slovenia	19	607 0.8×	491 0.7×	422 0.7×	351 0.7×	93 0.3×	107	1.5k
Salvatore Siano Italy	24	182 0.2×	179 0.2×	529 0.9×	609 1.1×	167 0.6×	141	1.9k
Georgy Sankin United States	17	564 0.8×	574 0.8×	170 0.3×	186 0.3×	48 0.2×	60	1.1k
D. C. Emmony United Kingdom	19	550 0.7×	439 0.6×	794 1.3×	550 1.0×	165 0.6×	62	1.4k
Olgert Lindau Germany	10	978 1.3×	590 0.8×	314 0.5×	294 0.5×	23 0.1×	13	1.3k

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Leng, Theodore, Ella H. Leung, Srinivas Mukkamala, et al.. (2025). Longitudinal Validation of the Artificial Intelligence Algorithm in Home OCT for Age-Related Macular Degeneration—Report 3. Ophthalmology Science. 6(2). 100907–100907.

Heier, Jeffrey S., Nancy M. Holekamp, Miguel Busquets, et al.. (2025). Pivotal Trial Validating Usability and Visualization Performance of Home OCT in Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Report 1. Ophthalmology Science. 5(5). 100772–100772. 2 indexed citations

Heier, Jeffrey S., Nancy M. Holekamp, Miguel Busquets, et al.. (2024). Pivotal Trial Toward Effectiveness of Self-administered OCT in Neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration. Report 2—Artificial Intelligence Analytics. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5(2). 100662–100662. 5 indexed citations

Nahen, Kester, et al.. (2020). Evaluation of a Self-Imaging SD-OCT System for Remote Monitoring of Patients with Neovascular Age Related Macular Degeneration. Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde. 237(12). 1410–1418. 21 indexed citations

Gianduzzo, Troy, José R. Colombo, Georges‐Pascal Haber, et al.. (2007). 804: Laser Nerve-Sparing Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: Effects of Potassium-Titanylphosphate (KTP) Laser on Cavernous Nerve Function in a Survival Canine Model. The Journal of Urology. 177(4S). 269–269. 1 indexed citations

Nahen, Kester & Alfred Vogel. (2002). Plume dynamics and shielding by the ablation plume during Er:YAG laser ablation. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 7(2). 165–165. 49 indexed citations

Venugopalan, Vasan, et al.. (2002). Role of Laser-Induced Plasma Formation in Pulsed Cellular Microsurgery and Micromanipulation. Physical Review Letters. 88(7). 78103–78103. 162 indexed citations

Brujan, Emil‐Alexandru, Kester Nahen, Peter Keresztes Schmidt, & Alfred Vogel. (2001). Dynamics of laser-induced cavitation bubbles near elastic boundaries: influence of the elastic modulus. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 433. 283–314. 250 indexed citations

Nahen, Kester & Alfred Vogel. (2001). Shielding by the ablation plume during Er:YAG laser ablation. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4257. 282–282. 2 indexed citations

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Vogel, Alfred, Emil‐Alexandru Brujan, Peter Keresztes Schmidt, & Kester Nahen. (2001). Interaction of laser-produced cavitation bubbles with an elastic tissue model. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4257. 167–167. 12 indexed citations

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Vogel, Alfred, Kester Nahen, Dirk Theisen‐Kunde, et al.. (1999). Influence of optical aberrations on laser-induced plasma formation in water and their consequences for intraocular photodisruption. Applied Optics. 38(16). 3636–3636. 51 indexed citations

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Nahen, Kester & Alfred Vogel. (1999). Investigations on acoustic on-line monitoring of IR laser ablation of burned skin. Lasers in Surgery and Medicine. 25(1). 69–78. 17 indexed citations

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Vogel, Alfred, J. Noack, Kester Nahen, et al.. (1999). Energy balance of optical breakdown in water at nanosecond to femtosecond time scales. Applied Physics B. 68(2). 271–280. 427 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nahen, Kester & Alfred Vogel. (1999). Investigations on acoustic on‐line monitoring of IR laser ablation of burned skin. Lasers in Surgery and Medicine. 25(1). 69–78.

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Vogel, Alfred, J. Noack, Kester Nahen, et al.. (1998). <title>Laser-induced breakdown in the eye at pulse durations from 80 ns to 100 fs</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3255. 34–49. 23 indexed citations

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Geerling, Gerd, et al.. (1998). Initial clinical experience with the picosecond Nd:YLF laser for intraocular therapeutic applications. British Journal of Ophthalmology. 82(5). 504–509. 19 indexed citations

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Nahen, Kester & Alfred Vogel. (1998). Acoustic spectroscopy of Er:YAG laser ablation of skin: first results. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3254. 218–218. 1 indexed citations

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Vogel, Alfred, J. Noack, Kester Nahen, et al.. (1998). Energy balance of optical breakdown in water. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 3254. 168–168. 6 indexed citations

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Nahen, Kester & Alfred Vogel. (1996). Plasma formation in water by picosecond and nanosecond Nd:YAG laser pulses. II. Transmission, scattering, and reflection. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 2(4). 861–871. 70 indexed citations

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Vogel, Alfred, et al.. (1996). Plasma formation in water by picosecond and nanosecond Nd:YAG laser pulses. I. Optical breakdown at threshold and superthreshold irradiance. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 2(4). 847–860. 217 indexed citations

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