Correction for corneal polarization axis improves the discriminating power of scanning laser polarimetry

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 27-33

  Greenfield, David S ^a   Knighton, Robert W ^a   Feuer, William J ^a   Schiffman, Joyce C ^a   Zangwill, Linda ^b   Weinreb, Robert N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; AVERAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MODEL; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PERIMETRY; POLARIMETRY; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETINA NERVE CELL; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLIT LAMP; STANDARD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THICKNESS; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIREFRINGENCE; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PERIMETRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 0036291707     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(02)01512-X     Document Type: Article

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