The gradient index lens of the eye: An opto-biological synchrony

Progress in Retinal and Eye Research

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 332-349

  Pierscionek, Barbara K ^a   Regini, Justyn W ^b  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Crystallins; Dispersion; Eye lens; Gradient refractive index; Image quality; Specific refractive increment

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; CRYSTALLIN; CYSTEINE; HISTIDINE; METHIONINE; PHENYLALANINE; PROLINE; SERINE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

AGE; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; AQUATIC SPECIES; AXIAL GRADIENT LENS; BIREFRINGENCE; CEPHALOPOD; GOLDFISH; HUMAN; INTERFEROMETRY; JELLYFISH; LAGOMORPH; LECITHIN CHOLESTEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE DEFICIENCY; LENS; LENS GRADIENT INDEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERCH; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REFLECTOMETRY; REFRACTION INDEX; REFRACTOMETRY; REVIEW; SPHERICAL GRADIENT LENS; UNGULATE; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; X RAY TALBOT GRATING INTERFEROMETRY;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; AGING; ANIMALS; BIREFRINGENCE; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LENSES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTOMETRY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VISION DISORDERS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84861455098     PISSN: 13509462     EISSN: 18731635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2012.03.001     Document Type: Review

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