Measurement of peripapillary nerve fiber layer thickness at different distances from the optic nerve head with OCT;Bestimmung der peripapillären nervenfaserschichtdicke mit der optischen kohärenztomographie (OCT) in verschiedenen abständen zum papillenrand

Ophthalmologe

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 387-392

  Bohm A G ^a   Schmidt, E ^a   Muller Holz M ^a   Pillunat, L E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Glaucoma; Measurement of retinal nerve fiber layer thickness; OCT; Retina; Retinal nerve fiber layer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINA; RETINA NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THICKNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; REFERENCE VALUES; RETINA; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 33646537115     PISSN: 0941293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00347-005-1309-0     Document Type: Article

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