Presbyopia and the optical changes in the human crystalline lens with age

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 209-229

  Glasser, Adrian ^a,b   Campbell, Melanie C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Age; Crystalline; Lens; Presbyopia; Spherical aberration

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CILIARY BODY; CILIARY MUSCLE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LENS; PRESBYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENESCENCE;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CHILD; CILIARY BODY; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICS; PRESBYOPIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0031986381     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00102-8     Document Type: Article

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