A comprehensive comparison of central corneal thickness measurement

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 940-949

  Huang, Jinhai ^a   Pesudovs, Konrad ^b   Yu, Ayong ^a   Wright, Thomas ^b   Wen, Daizong ^a   Li, Ming ^a   Yu, Ye ^a   Wang, Qinmei ^a,c  

^a BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College   (China)

Author keywords

Corneal thickness; LASIK; optical coherence tomography; rotating Scheimpflug photography

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL CORNEAL THICKNESS; COEFFICIENTS OF VARIATIONS; CORNEAL THICKNESS; FOURIER DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; LASER IN SITU KERATOMILEUSIS; LASIK; NON-CONTACT; REPRODUCIBILITIES; SCHEIMPFLUG; SCHEIMPFLUG IMAGING; STANDARD DEVIATION; ULTRASOUND PACHYMETRY;

ROTATION; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; KERATOMILEUSIS; MALE; MYOPIA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CORNEA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MYOPIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051552593     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e31821ffe2c     Document Type: Article

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