Measurement of corneal surface refractive index

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5826, Issue , 2005, Pages 500-511

  Pierscionek, Barbara K ^a   Green, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterior surface; Cornea; Fibre optics; Optical frequency domain reflectometry; Refractive index

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR SURFACE; CORNEA; HUMAN EYES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

FIBER OPTICS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VISION;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 27644505281     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.610999     Document Type: Conference Paper

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