Axial length and choroidal thickness changes accompanying prolonged accommodation in myopes and emmetropes

Vision Research

Volumn 72, Issue , 2012, Pages 34-41

  Woodman, Emily C ^a   Read, Scott A ^a   Collins, Michael J ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Axial elongation; Choroid; Myopia

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL THICKNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMMETROPIA; EYE AXIS LENGTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MYOPIA; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL LOW COHERENCE REFLECTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; REFRACTION ERROR; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AXIAL LENGTH, EYE; CHOROID; EMMETROPIA; EYE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOPIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867209840     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.09.009     Document Type: Article

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