Optical anisotropy of the human cornea determined with a polarizing microscope

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 34, 2007, Pages 8351-8357

  Bone, Richard A ^a   Draper, Grenville ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; MICROSCOPES; OPTICS; POLARIZATION;

NEGATIVE BIAXIAL MATERIAL; OPTIC AXIAL PLANE;

OPTICAL ANISOTROPY;

AGED; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CORNEA; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LENS; LIGHT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; REFRACTOMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; CORNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LIGHT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 39049156948     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.008351     Document Type: Article

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