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Imaging Techniques for the Visualization and Evaluation of Tear Film Dynamics

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Significant efforts have been made with the development of various imaging techniques to visualize and understand the tear film dynamics. This chapter reviews three imaging techniques with established impact on imaging the tear film dynamics: fluorescent imaging, interferometry, and optical coherence tomography.

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  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

    Jinxin Huang

  2. Corning Research and Development Corporation, Corning, NY, USA

    Jinxin Huang

  3. The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

    Jannick P. Rolland

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  1. Department of Math Sciences, Indiana University – Purdue University I, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    Giovanna Guidoboni

  2. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Alon Harris

  3. Department of Mathematics, Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy

    Riccardo Sacco

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Huang, J., Rolland, J.P. (2019). Imaging Techniques for the Visualization and Evaluation of Tear Film Dynamics. In: Guidoboni, G., Harris, A., Sacco, R. (eds) Ocular Fluid Dynamics. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25886-3_16

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