Noninvasive assessment of age-related stiffness of crystalline lenses in a rabbit model using ultrasound elastography

Noninvasive assessment of age-related stiffness of crystalline lenses in a rabbit model using ultrasound elastography

Abstract Background The pathological or physiological changes of a crystalline lens directly affect the eye accommodation and transmittance, and then they increase the risk of presbyopia and cataracts for people in the middle and old age groups. There is no universally accepted quantitative method t...

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Main Authors: Xinyu Zhang, Qingmin Wang, Zhen Lyu, Xuehua Gao, Pengpeng Zhang, Haoming Lin, Yanrong Guo, Tianfu Wang, Siping Chen, Xin Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-06-01
Series:BioMedical Engineering OnLine
Subjects:
Crystalline lens
Stiffness
Ultrasound elastography
Acoustic radiation force
Shear wave
Group velocity
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12938-018-0509-1

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