Role of corneal biomechanical properties in applanation tonometry measurements

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 512-519

  Kwon, Tae Hyun ^a   Ghaboussi, Jamshid ^b   Pecknold, David A ^b   Hashash, Youssef M A ^b  

^a ESI USA R and D   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; GEOMETRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MEDICAL ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONOMETER;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORNEA; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 77955367199     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20090814-02     Document Type: Article

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