Assessment of the ex vivo biomechanical properties of porcine cornea with inflation test for corneal xenotransplantation

Journal of Medical Engineering and Technology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 17-21

  Bao, F ^a   Jiang, L ^a   Wang, X ^b   Zhang, D ^c   Wang, Q ^a   Zeng, Y ^b  

^a EYE HOSPITAL OF WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cornea; Strain; Stress; Xenotransplantation; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICAL PARAMETERS; BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES; CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONSHIPS; CORNEA; DYNAMIC LOADING CONDITIONS; EX-VIVO; HIGH STIFFNESS; HUMAN CORNEA; INTERNAL PRESSURE; INTRA OCULAR PRESSURE; LASER DISPLACEMENT SENSORS; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOURS; PORCINE CORNEAS; PRESSURE DEFORMATION; PRESSURE RANGES; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; SHELL THEORY; STIFFNESS VALUES; STRESS/STRAIN; XENOTRANSPLANTATION; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

DYNAMIC LOADS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; MAMMALS; STIFFNESS; STRAIN; STRESSES;

BIOMECHANICS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CORNEA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE; XENOGRAFT; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CORNEA; ELASTIC MODULUS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SWINE; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS;

EID: 84455170835     PISSN: 03091902     EISSN: 1464522X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03091902.2011.629276     Document Type: Article

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