Reproducibility of tear meniscus measurement by Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography: A pilot study

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 442-447

  Zhou, Sheng ^a,b   Li, Yan ^a   Lu, Ake Tzu Hui ^a   Liu, Pengfei ^a,c   Tang, Maolong ^a   Yiu, Samuel C ^a   Huang, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CORNEA; DRY EYE; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LACRIMAL FLUID; LACRIMATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PARAMETER; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; FOURIER ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEARS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449723394     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/15428877-20090901-01     Document Type: Article

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