Thickness and birefringence of healthy retinal nerve fiber layer tissue measured with polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2606-2612

  Cense, Barry ^a   Chen, Teresa C ^b   Park, B Hyle ^a   Pierce, Mark C ^a   De Boer, Johannes F ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIMETRY; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL; THICKNESS; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIREFRINGENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC DISK; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 3242879407     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-1160     Document Type: Article

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