Changes in the internal structure of the human crystalline lens with age and accommodation

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2363-2375

  Dubbelman, M ^a   Van Der Heijde, G L ^a   Weeber, H A ^b   Vrensen, G F J M ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Applied Research   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Aging; Cortex; Crystalline lens; Nucleus; Scheimpflug photography

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; AGING; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CORNEA; DENSITOMETRY; EYE REFRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LENS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0042380169     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00428-0     Document Type: Article

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