Assessment of rates of structural change in glaucoma using imaging technologies

Eye

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 269-277

  Mansouri, K ^a,b   Leite, M T ^a,c   Medeiros, F A ^a   Leung, C K ^d   Weinreb, R N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy; glaucoma; imaging technology; optical coherence tomography; rate of change; scanning laser polarimetry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONFOCAL SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; DISEASE COURSE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA NERVE CELL; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 79952596593     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2010.202     Document Type: Article

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