Measuring corneal thickness with the ConfoScan 4 and z-ring adapter

Eye and Contact Lens

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 185-190

  McLaren, Jay W ^a   Nau, Cherie B ^a   Patel, Sanjay V ^a   Bourne, William M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; ConfoScan 4; Cornea; Corneal thickness; Pachymetry; Tandem Scanning; Z ring

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CELL SURFACE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTACT LENS; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA THICKNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND; Z RING ADAPTER;

ADULT; CORNEA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34547096465     PISSN: 15422321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICL.0b013e31802b3114     Document Type: Article

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