Laser Scanning Tomography of Optic Discs of the Normal Japanese Population in a Population-based Setting

Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Abe, Haruki ^a   Shirakashi, Motohiro ^a   Tsutsumi, Tae ^b,c   Araie, Makoto ^c   Tomidokoro, Atsuo ^c   Iwase, Aiko ^b   Tomita, Goji ^d   Yamamoto, Tetsuya ^e  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Tajimi Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEIDELBERG RETINA TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OCULAR PERFUSION PRESSURE; OPTIC DISK; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PARAMETER; PERFUSION PRESSURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA NERVE CELL;

EID: 58849112550     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2008.09.013     Document Type: Article

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