Three-dimensional reconstruction of the crystalline lens gradient index distribution from OCT imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 21905-21917

  De Castro, Alberto ^a   Ortiz, Sergio ^a   Gambra, Enrique ^a   Siedlecki, Damian ^a,b   Marcos, Susana ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT REFRACTION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANTERIOR SURFACE; BEST FIT; CRYSTALLINE LENS; EQUIVALENT REFRACTIVE INDEX; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; GRADIENT INDEXES; GRADIENT-INDEX; IN-VITRO; LENS GEOMETRY; NEGATIVE VALUES; OCT IMAGING; OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCE; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; SURFACE ELEVATIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION;

LENSES;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSING OVER; CRYSTALLIZATION; EYE REFRACTION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LENS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; SWINE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; CRYSTALLIZATION; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTOMETRY; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 78049522895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.021905     Document Type: Article

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