Calculated tear oxygen tension under contact lenses offering resistance in series: Piggyback and scleral lenses

Contact Lens and Anterior Eye

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 231-237

  Weissman, Barry A ^a   Ye, Ping ^a  

^a JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact lenses; Corneal physiology; Oxygen permeability; Oxygen transmissibility; Piggyback

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; EYELID CLOSURE; LACRIMAL FLUID; OXYGEN SUPPLY; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CONTACT LENSES; CORNEA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEARS;

EID: 33750986476     PISSN: 13670484     EISSN: 14765411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clae.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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