The role of optical defocus in regulating refractive development in infant monkeys

Vision Research

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1415-1435

  Smith III, Earl L ^a   Hung, Li Fang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Defocus; Emmetropization; Hyperopia; Monkey; Myopia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DEVELOPMENT; EYE REFRACTION; HYPERMETROPIA; LENS POWER; MYOPIA; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SPECTACLES;

ANIMALS; ANISOMETROPIA; BIOMETRY; CORNEA; EYE; FIXATION, OCULAR; LENSES; MACACA MULATTA; OPTICS; TIME FACTORS; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 0033120796     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(98)00229-6     Document Type: Article

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