Light scattering by donor lenses as a function of depth and wavelength

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1321-1332

  Van den Berg, Thomas J T P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lens opacity; Lens senescence; Light scattering; Psychophysics; Stray light

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFRACTION; HUMAN; LENS DISEASE; LIGHT SCATTERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VISION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LIGHT; MIDDLE AGED; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0030979885     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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