Evaluation of LTK lesions by optical low coherence tomography (OCT) and polarization microscopy after Sirius-Red staining;Darstellung von LTK-lasionen durch optische Kurzkoharenztomographie (OCT) und Polarisationsmikroskopie nach Sirius-Rot-Farbung

Ophthalmologe

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 487-491

  Asiyo Vogel, Mary N ^a   Koop, Norbert ^b   Brinkmann, Ralf ^b   Engelhardt, Ralf ^b   Eggers, Reinhard ^a   Birngruber, Reginald ^b   Vogel, Alfred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL LASER CENTER LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collagen denaturation; Collagen shrinkage; Laser thermokeratoplasty; Optical low coherence tomography; Polarization microscopy; Refractive surgery; Sirius Red staining

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KERATOPLASTY; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWINE; ANIMAL; CORNEA; CORNEA STROMA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY;

AZO COMPOUND; C.I. DIRECT RED 80; COLORING AGENT;

ANIMALS; AZO COMPOUNDS; COLORING AGENTS; CORNEA; CORNEAL STROMA; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; SWINE; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030813354     PISSN: 0941293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003470050144     Document Type: Article

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