Linear dichroism of the cornea

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1515-1521

  Louis Dorr, Valérie ^a   Naoun, Karim ^b   Allé, Paul ^c   Benoit, Anne Marie ^c   Respiller, Antoine ^b  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN AUTOMATIQUE DE NANCY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS;

CORNEA; DICHROIC BIAXIAL CRYSTAL; LINEAR DICHROISM; MUELLER MATRICES;

LIGHT POLARIZATION;

ANIMAL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIREFRINGENCE; CORNEA; IN VITRO STUDY; LIGHT; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SHEEP; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; CORNEA; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SHEEP; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 1542336849     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.001515     Document Type: Article

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