Optical properties of in situ eye lenses measured with X-ray Talbot interferometry: A novel measure of growth processes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Hoshino, Masato ^a   Uesugi, Kentaro ^a   Yagi, Naoto ^a   Mohri, Satoshi ^b   Regini, Justyn ^c   Pierscionek, Barbara ^d  

^a JAPAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; FISH; FROG; GRATING; INTERFEROMETRY; LENS; MOUSE; NEWT; NONHUMAN; REFRACTION INDEX; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EYE REFRACTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; OPTICS; PENTASTOMIDA; PHYSIOLOGY; REFRACTOMETRY; X RAY;

ANIMALS; FISHES; INTERFEROMETRY; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PENTASTOMIDA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTOMETRY; SWINE; X-RAYS;

EID: 80052921154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025140     Document Type: Article

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