Effect of Signal Strength and Improper Alignment on the Variability of Stratus Optical Coherence Tomography Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness Measurements

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Vizzeri, Gianmarco ^a   Bowd, Christopher ^a   Medeiros, Felipe A ^a   Weinreb, Robert N ^a   Zangwill, Linda M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETINA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THICKNESS;

EID: 67650461986     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2009.03.002     Document Type: Article

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