Reliability of the corneal thickness measurements with the pentacam HR imaging system and uiltrasound pachymetry

Cornea

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 561-566

  Módis, László ^a   Szalai, Eszter ^a   Németh, Gábor ^a   Berta, András ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

Author keywords

central corneal thickness; interoperator reliability; Pentacam HR; repeatability; ultrasound pachymetry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PENTACAM HR IMAGING SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND PACHYMETRY;

ANTHROPOMETRY; CORNEA; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 79955072484     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e318200096a     Document Type: Article

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