Correlation between local stress and strain and lamina cribrosa connective tissue volume fraction in normal monkey eyes

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 295-307

  Roberts, Michael D ^a   Liang, Yi ^a   Sigal, Ian A ^a   Grimm, Jonathan ^a   Reynaud, Juan ^a   Bellezza, Anthony ^b   Burgoyne, Claude F ^a   Downs, J Crawford ^a  

^a DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Third Eye Diagnostics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LAMINA CRIBROSA; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; RIGIDITY; SCLERA; SIMULATION; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TENSILE STRENGTH; ANIMAL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MACACA; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; SCLERA; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 75749111433     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4016     Document Type: Article

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