Forward scattering properties of corneal haze

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 843-848

  De Brouwere, Dirk ^a   Ginis, Harilaos ^a   Kymionis, George ^b   Naoumidi, Irini ^a   Pallikaris, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cornea; Haze; Keratocytes; PRK; Scattering

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE QUANTIFICATION; BACKSCATTERED LIGHT; CORNEA; FORWARD LIGHT SCATTERING; FORWARD SCATTERING; HAZE; KERATOCYTES; LIGHT SCATTER; MYOFIBROBLASTS; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NEW PARAMETERS; OCULAR SCATTERING; OPTICAL SET-UP; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMIES; POWER RATIO; PRK; SCATTER DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE PASS; SLIT LAMP EXAMINATION;

ABERRATIONS; ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EXCIMER LASERS; GAS LASERS; LASER ABLATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; REFRACTION;

SCATTERING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL VACUOLE; COLLAGEN DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEAL HAZE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; LIGHT SCATTERING; MALE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CORNEA; CORNEA OPACITY; LIGHT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; VISUAL DISORDER;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; CORNEAL OPACITY; LIGHT; MALE; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; RABBITS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 58149134989     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e31818527b4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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