Age-dependence of the average and equivalent refractive indices of the crystalline lens

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 31-39

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE LENS; EQUIVALENT LENS; EQUIVALENT REFRACTIVE INDEX; MODELING AND MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL MODELING; POWER FUNCTIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX GRADIENTS; SIMPLE MODELING;

REFRACTION; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ARTICLE; CORNEA THICKNESS; HUMAN; LENS; LENS FIBER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTION INDEX;

EID: 84888988581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.5.000031     Document Type: Article

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