Nerve fibre layer measurement of the Hong Kong Chinese population by scanning laser polarimetry

Eye (Basingstoke)

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 371-374

  Lee, Vincent Wing Hong ^a   Mok, Kwok Hei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Age; Chinese; Laser polarimetry; Nerve fibre layer analyzer; Retinal nerve fibre layer; Scanning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE; POLARIMETRY; RETINA NERVE CELL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 0033911899     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2000.91     Document Type: Article

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