Photo-pachometer: An instrument for the objective non-contact corneal thickness measurement

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 109-113

  Siu, Andrew W ^a  

^a Dept of Optometry and Radiography   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cornea; Instrumentation; Pachometry

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; OPTICAL DEVICES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

CORNEAL THICKNESS; OPTICAL PACHOMETERS;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORNEA THICKNESS; HUMAN; HYDRATION; MONITORING; PACHOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CONTACT LENSES, HYDROPHILIC; CORNEA; CORNEAL EDEMA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OPHTHALMOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0032030377     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(98)00005-8     Document Type: Article

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