Scanning laser polarimetry and confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy: technical notes on their use in glaucoma

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 173, Issue , 2008, Pages 125-138

  Ferreri, Felicia ^a   Aragona, Pasquale ^a   Ferreri, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

confocal scanning laser polarimetry; GDx; HRT; laser polarimetry; primary open angle glaucoma

Indexed keywords

DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEIDELBERG RETINAL TOMOGRAPH; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE FIBER ANALYSIS; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PARAMETER; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA NERVE CELL; REVIEW; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; STEREOMETRY; VISUAL FIELD;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LASERS; OPHTHALMOSCOPES; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE; PERIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 53049086532     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)01109-6     Document Type: Review

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