Age-related changes in geometry and transparency of human crystalline lens revealed by optical signal discontinuity zones in swept-source OCT images.

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"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe Bioethics Commission at Nicolaus Copernicus University (KB290/2019) and the Ethical Research Commission at the University of Murcia (3.10.2013) approved the study. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsPA owns patents on one of the diagnostic devices (VAO by Voptica SL) used in this report. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests PA owns patents on one of the diagnostic devices (VAO by Voptica SL) used in this report. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding The study was supported by the Foundation for Polish Science within the Smart Growth Operational Programme 2014–2020 of the European Union (TEAM Programme, # POIR.04.04.00-00-5C9B/17-00); Polish National Science Center (2017/26/M/NZ5/00849, 2020/39/D/NZ5/03583); Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Spain (PID2019-105684RB-I00/AEI/https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033)."