Peripheral light focusing as a potential mechanism for phakic dysphotopsia and lens phototoxicity

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 119-129

  Kwok, L Stephen ^a   Daszynski, Damian C ^a,b   Kuznetsov, Valerian A ^a   Pham, Therese ^a   Ho, Arthur ^a   Coroneo, Minas T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Institut für Augenoptik   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cataract; Contact lens; Cornea; Eye; Lens; Peripheral light; Ultraviolet

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CONTACT LENS; CORNEA LIMBUS; EYE REFRACTION; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; LENS; LIGHT; PHAKIC DYSPHOTOPSIA; PHOTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOMETRY; CORNEA; GLARE; HYDROPHILIC CONTACT LENS; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION SCATTERING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANTERIOR CHAMBER; BIOMETRY; CATARACT; CONTACT LENSES, HYDROPHILIC; CORNEA; GLARE; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RADIATION INJURIES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; SCATTERING, RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 3142776337     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2004.00181.x     Document Type: Article

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