Accommodation in emmetropic and myopic young adults wearing bifocal soft contact lenses

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 62-72

  Tarrant, Janice ^a   Severson, Holly ^a   Wildsoet, Christine F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Accommodative lag; Contact lenses; Myopia; Spherical aberration

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIFOCAL LENS; BINOCULAR VISION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTACT LENS; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EMMETROPIA; HUMAN; MONOCULAR VISION; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISION;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; CONTACT LENSES, HYDROPHILIC; HUMANS; MYOPIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR;

EID: 38349041853     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: 14751313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2007.00529.x     Document Type: Article

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