Ocular lens blue autofluorescence cannot be used as a measure of individual cumulative UVR exposure

Photodermatology Photoimmunology and Photomedicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 41-46

  Sandby Møller, Jane ^a   Thieden, Elisabeth ^a   Philipsen, Peter Alshede ^a   Schmidt, Grethe ^a   Wulf, Hans Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ageing; Eye lens; Fluorescence; Ultraviolet rays

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSIMETER; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; GROUPS BY AGE; GROUPS BY SEX; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LENS; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SPECTACLES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CRYSTALLINS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 1042263816     PISSN: 09054383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0781.2004.00062.x     Document Type: Article

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