Performance of confocal scanning laser tomograph topographic change analysis (TCA) for assessing glaucomatous progression

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 691-701

  Bowd, Christopher ^a   Balasubramanian, Madhusudhanan ^a   Weinreb, Robert N ^a   Vizzeri, Gianmarco ^a   Alencar, Luciana M ^a   O'Leary, Neil ^b   Sample, Pamela A ^a   Zangwill, Linda M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPTIC DISK; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEREORADIOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL FIELD;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

AGED; AXONS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PERIMETRY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 59449094015     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2136     Document Type: Article

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