Biomechanical properties of human and porcine corneas

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 783-790

  Elsheikh, Ahmed ^a   Alhasso, Daad ^a   Rama, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

corneal biomechanics; creep behaviour; stress relaxation behaviour

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; YOUNG MODULUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CORNEA; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANIMAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PRESSURE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 42749091458     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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