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Thermal Modeling of the Ageing Eye
Anastasios Papaioannou and Theodoros Samaras
17.1 The Healthy Ageing Eye
Like the rest of the human body, the human eye undergoes several changes due to age-
ing. These anatomical and physiological processes follow either a gradual decrease or a
gradual increase. There is a difference between disease and the changes that occur due to
eye ageing, although the visual impairments caused by the latter may be similar to but less
important than the ones caused by the former. It is widely acknowledged that the scientic
community has placed more emphasis on understanding and treating diseases that cause
blindness ...