Ultraviolet radiation transmittance of the mouse eye and its individual media components

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 382-387

  Henriksson, Johanna Tukler ^a   Bergmanson, Jan P G ^a   Walsh, James E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Fiber optic spectrometer; Mouse eye; Transmittance; UVR

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA OPACITY; DEGRADATION; FIBER OPTICS; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LENS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; SCLERA; SPECTROMETER; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VALIDATION STUDY; VISION;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 77649190940     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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