Infrared thermography of the tear film in dry eye

Eye (Basingstoke)

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 615-618

  Tullo, Andrew B ^a   Efron, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dry eye; Infrared; Tear film; Temperature; Thermography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA LIMBUS; DRY EYE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY; MALE; SCHIRMER TEST; TEAR FILM; TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0028841060     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1995.149     Document Type: Article

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