AGE-RELATED-CHANGES IN THE HUMAN LENS - A COMPARISON OF SCHEIMPFLUG PHOTOGRAPHY AND LENS DENSITY INDEX

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作者
BOSEM, ME [1 ]
SAMPLE, PA [1 ]
MARTINEZ, GA [1 ]
LUSKY, M [1 ]
WEINREB, RN [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CALIF SAN DIEGO,CTR SHILEY EYE,SAN DIEGO,CA 92103
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CATARACT; LENS DENSITY INDEX; QUANTITATIVE; SCHEIMPFLUG PHOTOGRAPHY;
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10.1016/S0886-3350(13)80047-8
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R77 [眼科学];
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100212 ;
摘要
Two quantitative techniques, Scheimpflug photography and the lens density index (LDI), were used to measure lens density in 52 patients. In the Scheimpflug technique, a digitized slitlamp camera provides peak and average nuclear density based on a densitometric analysis of the lens nucleus. The LDI is a psychophysical measurement of the difference between retinal scotopic thresholds for two wave-lengths of light. Both the Scheimpflug technique and LDI revealed an age-related increase in lens density. Peak and average nuclear density were highly correlated with the LDI.
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