Optical density of the human lens

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 953-960

  Xu, Jun ^a   Pokorny, Joel ^a   Smith, Vivianne C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTIC DISK; REFRACTION, OCULAR;

DENSITOMETERS; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PHOTOMETRY; REFLECTOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

HUMAN LENS; LENS DENSITY; OPTIC DISK REFLECTANCE; PHYSIOLOGICAL LENSES; PSEUDOPHAKIC OBSERVERS;

DENSITY (OPTICAL);

EID: 0031128577     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.14.000953     Document Type: Article

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