Gradients of refractive index in the crystalline lens and transient changes in refraction among patients with diabetes

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3033-3042

  Neil Charman, W ^a   Adnan, ^b   Atchison, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATIENT REHABILITATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; REFRACTION;

AFTER INITIATION; CRYSTALLINE LENS; GRADIENT-INDEX MODELS; GRADUAL CHANGES; LENS SURFACE; PARAXIAL; RATE OF CHANGE; REFRACTIVE-INDEX DISTRIBUTION; TIME-SCALES; TRANSIENT CHANGES;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 84870744539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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