Tear meniscus height determination using the OCT2 and the RTVue-100

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1154-1159

  Keech, Adam ^a   Flanagan, John ^a   Simpson, Trefford ^a   Jones, Lyndon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Optical coherence tomography; RTVue 100; Spectral domain OCT; Tear meniscus height; Tear prism

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RTVUE-100; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OCT; TEAR MENISCUS HEIGHT; TEAR PRISM;

CAMS; COHERENT LIGHT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LENSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PRISMS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; TOMOGRAPHY;

ASSOCIATIVE STORAGE;

ADULT; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LACRIMAL FLUID; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; TIME DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEARS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349841100     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e3181bab0f5     Document Type: Article

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