A viscoelastic biomechanical model of the cornea describing the effect of viscosity and elasticity on hysteresis

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3919-3926

  Glass, Dianne H ^a   Roberts, Cynthia J ^a,b   Litsky, Alan S ^a,b   Weber, Paul A ^b  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYZER; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HYSTERESIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OCULAR RESPONSE ANALYZER; PHANTOM; PHOTOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SIMULATION; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FREEZING; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATOMETRY; MECHANICAL STRESS; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOMECHANICS; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; FREEZING; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; VISCOSITY;

EID: 53149152237     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-1321     Document Type: Article

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