High-resolution ultrasound imaging of the eye - A review

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 54-67

  Silverman, Ronald H ^a,b  

^a RIVERSIDE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior segment; Eye; Imaging; Ultrasound biomicroscopy

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; B SCAN; BIOMICROSCOPY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ECHOOCULOGRAPHY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE CANCER; EYE DISEASE; EYE INJURY; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; EYE TUMOR; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GLAUCOMA; HIGH RESOLUTION ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTRAOCULAR FOREIGN BODY; IRIDOTOMY; IRIS DISEASE; KERATOCONUS; KERATOPLASTY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POSTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; RADIOFREQUENCY; REVIEW; SLIT LAMP; STRABISMUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CYSTS; EYE; EYE DISEASES; EYE FOREIGN BODIES; EYE INJURIES; EYE NEOPLASMS; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 63649125889     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2008.01892.x     Document Type: Review

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