Reproducibility of laser Doppler flowmetry in the human optic nerve head

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 212-216

  Joos, Karen M ^a,b   Pillunat, Lutz E ^a   Knighton, Robert W ^a   Anderson, Douglas R ^a   Feuer, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Laser Doppler flowmetry; Optic disk; Optic nerve head hemodynamics; Reproducibility; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

EID: 0030832764     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00061198-199708000-00004     Document Type: Article

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