Patient-specific computational modeling of keratoconus progression and differential responses to collagen cross-linking

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 9174-9187

  Roy, Abhijit Sinha ^a   Dupps Jr , William J ^a,b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; RIBOFLAVIN;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORNEAL WAVEFRONT ABERRATION; CROSS LINKING; DISEASE COURSE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY; YOUNG MODULUS; CORNEA; ELASTICITY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATOMETRY; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

COLLAGEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATOCONUS; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; RIBOFLAVIN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84857095009     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-7395     Document Type: Article

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