Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 215-222 , September 2007

Surface morphology of contact lenses probed with microscopy techniques

  • Vilém Guryča

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
    • Centre for Cell Therapy and Tissue Repair, Charles University, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
    • ,
  • Radka Hobzová

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
    • Centre for Cell Therapy and Tissue Repair, Charles University, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
    • ,
  • Martin Přádný

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
    • Centre for Cell Therapy and Tissue Repair, Charles University, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
    • ,
  • Jakub Širc

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
    • Department of Analytical Chemistry, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
    • ,
  • Jiří Michálek

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
    • Centre for Cell Therapy and Tissue Repair, Charles University, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Heyrovsky Sq. 2, 162 06 Prague 6, Czech Republic. Tel.: +420 296 809 270; fax: +420 296 809 410.

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doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2007.02.010

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 30, Issue 4 , Pages 215-222 , September 2007

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