The impact of retardance pattern variability on nerve fiber layer Measurements over time using GDx with variable and enhanced corneal compensation

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4516-4524

  Grewal, Dilraj S ^a   Sehi, Mitra ^a   Cook, Richard J ^b   Greenfield, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA; RETINAL NERVE ?BER LAYER THICKNESS; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; THICKNESS; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; AGED; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; TIME; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AGED; BIREFRINGENCE; CORNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 80052389532     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5969     Document Type: Article

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