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Article: New findings from University of Waterloo in the area of optometry described.(Report)
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- Health & Medicine Week
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- November 16, 2009
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"Density is essential for acoustic characterization of tissues and provides a basic input for ultrasound backscatter and absorption models. Despite the existence of extensive compilations of acoustic properties, neither unified data on ocular density nor comparisons of the densities between all ocular components can be found," scientists in Waterloo, Canada report (see also Optometry).
"This study was undertaken to determine the mass density of all the ocular components of the bovine eye. Liquid components were measured through mass/volume ratio, whereas solid tissues were measured with two different densitometry techniques based on Archimedes Principle. The ...
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Article: Researchers from University of Waterloo provide details of ...
Health & Medicine Week;
November 16, 2009 ;
700+ words
... ... the RTVue-100. Optometry and Vision Science, 2009;86(10):1154-1159 ... contact A. Keech, University of Waterloo, School Optometry, 200 University ... publisher of the journal Optometry and Vision Science can be contacted at: Lippincott ...
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