The stress on the anterior lens surface during human in vivo accommodation

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 348-350

  Schachar, R A ^a,d   Koivula, A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b ST ERIK S EYE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; CORNEA; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LENS; LENS CAPSULE; LENS IMPLANT; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 40549085345     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2007.126649     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Federici JF, Guzelsu N, Lim HC, et al. Noninvasive light-reflection technique for measuring soft-tissue stretch. Appl Opt 1999;38:6653-60.
2. Read SA, Buehren T, Collins MJ. Influence of accommodation on the anterior and posterior cornea. J Cataract Refract Surg 2007;33:1877-85.
3. Buehren T, Collins MJ, Loughridge J, et al. Corneal topography and accommodation. Cornea 2003;22:311-6.
4. Drexler W, Baumgartner A, Findl O, et al. Biometric investigation of changes in the anterior eye segment during accommodation. Vision Res 1997;19:2789-800.
5. Steffen H, Walker MF, Zee DS. Potation of Listing's plane with convergence: independence from eye position. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2000;41:715-21.
6. Abolmaali A, Schachar RA, Le T. Sensitivity study of human crystalline lens accommodation. Comput Meth Prog Biomed 2007;85:77-90.
7. Schachar RA, Abolmaali A, Le T. Insights into the age-related decline in the amplitude of accommodation of the human lens using a non-linear finite-element model. Br J Ophthalmol 2006;90:1304-9.
8. Chien CH, Huang T, Schachar RA. Analysis of human crystalline lens accommodation. J Biomech 2006;39:672-80.
9. Belaidi A, Pierscionek BX. Modeling internal stress distributions in the human lens: can opponent theories coexist? J Vis 2007;7:1-12.
10. Schachar RA, Davila C, Pierscionek BK, et al. The effect of human in vivo accommodation on crystalline lens stability. Br J Ophthalmol 2007;91:790-3.
11. Kirschkamp T, Dunne M, Barry JC. Phakometric measurement of ocular surface radii of curvature, axial separations and alignment in relaxed and accommodated human eyes. Ophthal Physiol Opt 2004;24:65-73.
12. Sokolowska A, Thorn F. Accommodation induced changes in crystalline lens position. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2003;44:E- Abstract 4072.
13. Schachar RA. The lens is stable during accommodation. Ophthal Physiol Opt. In press.
14. Atchison DA, Claydon CA, Irwin SE. Amplitude of accommodation for different head positions and different directions of eye gaze. Optom Vis Sci 1994;71:339-45.
15. Schachar RA, Cudmore DP. The effect of gravity on the amplitude of accommodation. Ann Ophthalmol 1994;26:65-70.
16. Glenn J. Interviews with an astronaut. 2002. http://www.stmms.org/ interview.html and http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/glenn_at_40_020225.html (accessed 9 Jan 2008).
17. Vanderploeg JM. Near visual acuity measurements of space shuttle crewmembers. Aviat Space Environ Med 1985;57:492.