Pre-corneal tear film thickness in humans measured with a novel technique

Molecular Vision

Volumn 17, Issue , 2011, Pages 756-767

  Azartash, Kaveh ^a   Kwan, Justin ^b   Paugh, Jerry R ^b   Nguyen, Andrew Loc ^c   Jester, James V ^a   Gratton, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIODE LASER; DRY EYE; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FLUCTUATION ANALYSIS BY SPATIAL IMAGE CORRELATION; HUMAN; IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRECORNEAL TEAR FILM THICKNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLINKING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORNEA; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LASERS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEARS; XEROPHTHALMIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955606515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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