In vitro measurement of rabbit corneal epithelial thickness using ultrahigh resolution optical coherence tomography

Veterinary Ophthalmology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 85-88

  Reiser, Bibiana J ^a   Ignacio, Teresa S ^a   Wang, Yimin ^b   Taban, Mehran ^a   Graff, Jordan M ^a   Sweet, Paula ^a   Chen, Zhongping ^b,c   Chuck, Roy S ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cornea; Epithelial thickness; Optical coherence tomography; Rabbit

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEA THICKNESS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RABBIT; STUDENT T TEST;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; RABBITS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 15944385634     PISSN: 14635216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-5224.2005.00345.x     Document Type: Article

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