Comment on the publication "Three-dimensional ultrasound, biomicroscopy environmental and conventional scanning electron microscopy investigations of the human zonula ciliaris for numerical modelling of accommodation" by O. Stachs et al. [2]

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 244, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1062-1063

  Schachar, Ronald A ^a   Abolmaali, Ali ^a   Kamangar, Farhad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; BIOMICROSCOPY; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CILIARY MUSCLE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; LENS CAPSULE; LENS NUCLEUS; LENS POWER; LETTER; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE FORCE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RELIABILITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; YOUNG MODULUS;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; CILIARY BODY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIGAMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33746875924     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-005-0228-8     Document Type: Letter

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