Symmetry between the right and left eyes of the normal retinal nerve fiber layer measured with optical coherence tomography (an AOS thesis)

Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society

Volumn 106, Issue , 2008, Pages 252-275

  Budenz, Donald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; AXONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 63049101152     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15456110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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