Laser scanning tomography of localised nerve fibre layer defects

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1112-1117

  Burk, Reinhard O W ^a   Tuulonen, Anja ^b   Airaksinen, P Juhani ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; LASER; LASER SCANNING TOMOGRAPHY; NERVE FIBER; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; PERIMETRY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA NERVE CELL; SCOTOMA; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 0031719696     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.82.10.1112     Document Type: Article

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