Specular microscopy, confocal microscopy, and ultrasound biomicroscopy: Diagnostic tools of the past quarter century

Cornea

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 712-722

  Cavanagh, H Dwight ^a   El Agha, M Sameh ^a   Petroll, W Matthew ^a   Jester, James V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; In vivo microscopy; Noninvasive imaging; Specular microscopy; Ultrasound biomicroscopy

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOMETRY; BIOMICROSCOPY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA OPACITY; EXCIMER LASER; HERPES SIMPLEX KERATITIS; HUMAN; KERATECTOMY; KERATITIS; KERATOMILEUSIS; KERATOMYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECULAR MICROSCOPY; TEAR FILM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND; WOUND HEALING;

CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033822579     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003226-200009000-00016     Document Type: Review

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