A test of a linear model of glaucomatous structure-function loss reveals sources of variability in retinal nerve fiber and visual field measurements

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4254-4266

  Hood, Donald C ^a   Anderson, Susan C ^b   Wall, Michael ^b   Raza, Ali S ^a   Kardon, Randy H ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIC NERVE FIBER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA EDEMA; RETINAL NERVE FIBER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISUAL FIELD; ALGORITHM; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PERIMETRY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349235499     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2697     Document Type: Article

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