Central corneal thickness measurements: Using an ultrasonic instrument and 4 optical instruments

Cornea

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1238-1243

  Williams, Ravaughn ^a   Fink, Barbara A ^a   King Smith, P Ewen ^a   Mitchell, G Lynn ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

confocal microscopy; corneal thickness; optical coherence tomography; pachymetry; spectral oscillation interferometry

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; CORNEA THICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMIT OF AGREEMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTOMETRY; ORBSCAN PACHYMETRY; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SPECTRAL OSCILLATION INTERFEROMETRY; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND PACHYMETRY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADULT; CORNEA; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERFEROMETRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053633253     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3182152051     Document Type: Article

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