Monitoring of cornea elastic properties changes during UV-A/riboflavin-induced corneal collagen cross-linking using supersonic shear wave imaging: A pilot study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 5948-5954

  Nguyen, Thu Mai ^a   Aubry, Jean François ^a   Touboul, David ^b   Fink, Mathias ^a   Gennisson, Jean Luc ^a   Bercoff, Jeremy ^c   Tanter, Mickael ^a  

^a INSTITUT LANGEVIN   (France)

^b BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c SUPERSONIC IMAGINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOFLAVIN; COLLAGEN; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; ELASTICITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION; SUPERSONIC SHEAR WAVE IMAGING; ULTRASOUND; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN; CORNEA; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; ELASTICITY; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PILOT PROJECTS; RIBOFLAVIN; SWINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84871685164     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-9142     Document Type: Article

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