Submicrometer precision biometry of the anterior segment of the human eye

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1304-1313

  Drexler, Wolfgang ^a,c   Baumgartner, Angela ^a   Findl, Oliver ^b   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a   Sattmann, Harald ^a   Fercher, Adolf F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c NMR Group   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anterior eye segment; Biometry; Cycloplegia; Interferometry; Partial coherence interferometry

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; INTERFEROMETRY; LENS; MYOPIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; ANTHROPOMETRY; CORNEA; CYCLOPENTOLATE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFEROMETRY; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LIGHT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYDRIATICS; MYOPIA; PUPIL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0030979884     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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