Pig lenses in a lens stretcher: Implications for presbyopia treatment

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 908-915

  Kammel, Robert ^a   Ackermann, Roland ^a   Mai, Torsten ^a   Damm, Christoph ^b   Nolte, Stefan ^a,b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

accommodation; equivalent refractive index; lens stretcher; presbyopia; refractive surgery

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; EQUIVALENT REFRACTIVE INDEX; LENS STRETCHERS; PRESBYOPIA; REFRACTIVE SURGERY;

MAMMALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STRETCHERS;

LENSES;

ACCOMMODATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ELASTICITY; EYE REFRACTION; LENS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESBYOPIA; SWINE;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELASTICITY; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; PRESBYOPIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; SWINE;

EID: 84861797015     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e318255da87     Document Type: Article

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