Investigation of dispersion effects in ocular media by multiple wavelength partial coherence interferometry

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-33

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cornea; Group dispersion; Group refractive index; Human eye; Lens, aqueous humor; Partial coherence interferometry; Pseudophakic eye

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DISPERSION; EYE AXIS LENGTH; HUMAN; INTERFEROMETRY; LENS; LENS IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPHAKIA; REFRACTION INDEX;

EID: 0031915674     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.1997.0401     Document Type: Article

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