UV-B exposure to the eye depending on solar altitude

Eye and Contact Lens

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 191-195

  Sasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Sakamoto, Yasuo ^a   Schnider, Cristina ^b   Fujita, Nobuyuki ^a   Hatsusaka, Natsuko ^a   Sliney, David H ^c   Sasaki, Kazuyuki ^a,d  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JOHNSON AND JOHNSON   (United States)

^c Tohoku Bunka Gakuen University ^*

^d TOHOKU BUNKA GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cataract; Pterygium; Sunlight; Ultraviolet radiation

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EYE PROTECTION; FACE; HEAD; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR RADIATION; SPRING; SUN; SUN EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; WINTER;

ALTITUDE; EYE; HUMANS; MANIKINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 79959941614     PISSN: 15422321     EISSN: 1542233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICL.0b013e31821fbf29     Document Type: Article

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