Age-related changes in the accommodation mechanism

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 235-242

  Beers, A P A ^a   Van Der Heijde, G L ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accommodation mechanism; Mechanical model; Presbyopia; Ultrasonography; Visco elastic properties

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; DAMPING; MODELS; MUSCLE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VISCOELASTICITY;

ACCOMMODATION MECHANISM; BIOMETRY; DAMPING COEFFICIENT; MECHANICAL MODEL; PRESBYOPIA; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

VISION;

ACCOMMODATION; AGE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; LENS; PATHOGENESIS; PRESBYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISCOELASTICITY;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMETRY; EYE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRESBYOPIA;

EID: 0030130847     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: 15389235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-199604000-00004     Document Type: Article

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