Quantification of simulated corneal haze by measuring back-scattered light

Ophthalmic Research

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 380-388

  Soya, K ^a   Amano, S ^b   Oshika, Tetsuro ^c  

^a Tokyo Senbai Hospital   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beer's law; Corneal haze; EAS 1000; Excimer laser; Hazemeter; Photorefractive keratectomy; Scattered light; TSPC 3

Indexed keywords

LATEX; MICROSPHERE;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; CORNEA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HAZE; ILLUMINATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGHT SCATTERING; LINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SLIT LAMP; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CALIBRATION; CORNEA; CORNEAL OPACITY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; LATEX; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; WEIGHTS AND MEASURES;

EID: 0036978667     PISSN: 00303747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000067046     Document Type: Article

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