Application of a novel interferometric method to investigate the relation between lipid layer thickness and tear film thinning

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2418-2423

  Ewen King Smith, P ^a   Hinel, Erich A ^a   Nichols, Jason J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID EMULSION; LIPID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVAPORATION; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; TEAR FILM; BLINKING; CHEMISTRY; EMULSION; LACRIMAL FLUID; LIGHT; LIPID BILAYER; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VOLATILIZATION;

ADULT; BLINKING; EMULSIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; LIPID BILAYERS; LIPIDS; MALE; TEARS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 77952466934     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4387     Document Type: Article

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