Corneal imaging with slit-scanning and Scheimpflug imaging techniques

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-42

  Oliveira, Cristina M ^a   Ribeiro, Celina ^a   Franco, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Corneal imaging; Keratoconus; Keratorefractive surgery; Rotating Scheimpflug tomography; Slit scanning tomography system

Indexed keywords

AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CORNEA; CORNEAL WAVEFRONT ABERRATION; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; KERATOMETRY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; CORNEAL WAVEFRONT ABERRATION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 78650709901     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.2010.00509.x     Document Type: Review

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