Double lateral shearing interferometer for the quantitative measurement of tear film topography

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1191-1199

  Dubra, Alfredo ^a   Paterson, Carl ^a   Dainty, Christopher ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; DYNAMICS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHTING; PRODUCT DESIGN; SHEARING; WAVEFRONTS;

CYCLOPENTOLATE; LASER ASSISTED IN SETU KERATOMILEUSIS (LASIK); PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY (PRK); ROOT MEAN SQAURE (RMS);

SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CORNEA; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; KERATOMETRY; LACRIMAL FLUID; METHODOLOGY;

CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TEARS;

EID: 14844335678     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001191     Document Type: Article

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