Axial and peripheral eye length measured with optical low coherence reflectometry

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 655-662

  Schmid, Gregor F ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye length; Eye shape; Ocular biometry; Optical coherence tomography; Optical low coherence reflectometry (OLCR); Partial coherence interferometry

Indexed keywords

EYE LENGTH MEASUREMENT; OCULAR BIOMETRY; OPTICAL LOW COHERENCE REFLECTOMETRY (OLCR);

COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EYE MOVEMENTS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PHOTODIODES; SCANNING; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; VISION;

REFLECTOMETERS;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; EYE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EYE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; OPHTHALMOSCOPES; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 0348223331     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1606461     Document Type: Article

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