Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 11 , Pages 1784-1791 , November 2006

Noninvasive corneal stromal collagen imaging using two-photon-generated second-harmonic signals

,Accepted 7 April 2006.

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 No author has a proprietary or financial interest in any material or method mentioned.Supported in part by National Institutes of Health grants EY07348 (Dr. Jester) and Infrastructure Grant EY016663, Lew Wasserman Merit Award and Support Grant from Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., The Skirball Program in Molecular Ophthalmology, and the Japan Eye Bank Association.

PII: S0886-3350(06)01121-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2006.08.027

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 11 , Pages 1784-1791 , November 2006

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