In vivo study of changes in refractive index distribution in the human crystalline lens with age and accommodation

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2531-2540

  Kasthurirangan, Sanjeev ^a   Markwell, Emma L ^a   Atchison, David A ^a   Pope, James M ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; DETERIORATION; EYE; EYE AXIS LENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LENS; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; EYE REFRACTION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; AGED; AGING; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; REFRACTION, OCULAR;

EID: 47249161086     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-1443     Document Type: Article

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