Real-time mapping of the corneal sub-basal nerve plexus by in vivo laser scanning confocal microscopy

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7550, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Guthoff, Rudolf F ^a   Zhivov, Andrey ^a   Stachs, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Cornea; Mapping

Indexed keywords

AFFINE TRANSFORMATIONS; CORNEA; FRAME RATE; IN-VIVO; LASER SCANNING CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; MAPPING ALGORITHMS; RABBIT EYES; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME MAPPING; SCALE-UP; SOURCE DATA;

CONFORMAL MAPPING;

CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY;

EID: 78649827867     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.842476     Document Type: Conference Paper

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