Optical coherence tomography and localized defects of the retinal nerve fiber layer

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-52

  Teesalu, Pait ^b   Tuulonen, Anja ^a   Airaksinen, P Juhani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Glaucoma; Ocular imaging; Optical coherence tomography; Photography; Retinal nerve fiber layer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; EYE FUNDUS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA INJURY; RETINA NERVE CELL; THICKNESS; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

AXONS; CHRONIC DISEASE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OBSERVER VARIATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0033954483     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0420.2000.078001049.x     Document Type: Article

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