MRI study of the changes in crystalline lens shape with accommodation and aging in humans

Journal of Vision

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1-16

  Kasthurirangan, Sanjeev ^a   Markwell, Emma L ^b   Atchison, David A ^b   Pope, James M ^b  

^a Abbott Medical Optics   (United States)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accommodation restoration; Anterior chamber depth; Anterior segment depth; Asphericity; Cataract surgery; Equatorial diameter; Lens; Lens thickness; Mechanism of accommodation; Ocular parameters; Presbyopia; Radius of curvature

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CILIARY BODY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LENS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESBYOPIA;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTIFACTS; CILIARY BODY; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PRESBYOPIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960685256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/11.3.1     Document Type: Article

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