The AC/A ratio, age and presbyopia

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 307-315

  Ciuffreda, Kenneth J ^a   Rosenfield, Mark ^a   Chen, Hai Wen ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; OPTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESBYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PRESBYOPIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030876071     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0275-5408(96)00062-2     Document Type: Article

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