Repeatability, reproducibility, and agreement characteristics of rotating Scheimpflug photography and scanning-slit corneal topography for corneal power measurement

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-133

  Kawamorita, Takushi ^a   Uozato, Hiroshi ^a   Kamiya, Kazutaka ^a   Bax, Leon ^a   Tsutsui, Kenta ^a   Aizawa, Daisuke ^a   Shimizu, Kimiya ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATOMETRY; ORBSCAN II SYSTEM; PENTACAM SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCANNING SLIT CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; SCHEIMPFLUG PHOTOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 57749191496     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2008.10.019     Document Type: Article

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