Effect of image quality on tissue thickness measurements obtained with spectral domain-optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 4019-4036

  Balasubramanian, Madhusudhanan ^a   Bowd, Christopher ^a   Vizzeri, Gianmarco ^a   Weinreb, Robert N ^a   Zangwill, Linda M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; THICKNESS GAGES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

QUALITY IMAGE; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYERS; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; SPECTRAL DOMAINS;

IMAGE QUALITY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; RETINA; STANDARD; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; QUALITY CONTROL; RETINA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 61549129209     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.004019     Document Type: Article

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