Three-dimensional analysis of collagen lamellae in the anterior stroma of the human cornea visualized by second harmonic generation imaging microscopy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 911-915

  Morishige, Naoyuki ^a   Takagi, Yuki ^a   Chikama, Tai ichiro ^a   Takahara, Atsushi ^b   Nishida, Teruo ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN LAMELLAE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA STROMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION IMAGING MICROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; COLLAGEN; CORNEAL STROMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79953277824     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5657     Document Type: Article

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