Nonlinear optical macroscopic assessment of 3-D corneal collagen organization and axial biomechanics

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 8818-8827

  Winkler, Moritz ^a   Chai, Dongyul ^b   Kriling, Shelsea ^a   Nien, Chyong Jy ^b   Brown, Donald J ^a   Jester, Bryan ^b   Juhasz, Tibor ^a,b   Jester, James V ^a,b  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER; COLLAGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CORNEA; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORNEA THICKNESS; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; EYE AXIS LENGTH; FEMALE; FEMTOSECOND LASER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; YOUNG MODULUS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELASTOGRAPHY; EYEBANK; HISTOLOGY; KERATOMILEUSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFRACTION ERROR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN; CORNEA; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; EYE BANKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REFRACTIVE ERRORS;

EID: 84855407646     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8070     Document Type: Article

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