Evidence for the major contribution of evaporation to tear film thinning between blinks

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 6294-6297

  Kimball, Samuel H ^a   King Smith, P Ewen ^a   Nichols, Jason J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR; AIR TIGHT GOGGLES; ARTICLE; DRY EYE; EVAPORATION; EYE PROTECTIVE DEVICE; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL INTERFEROMETRY; TEAR FILM; TEAR FILM THINNING; TEAR THICKNESS;

ADULT; BLINKING; CORNEA; DESICCATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MALE; TEARS; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 79953744365     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4772     Document Type: Article

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