Quality and Reproducibility of Retinal Thickness Measurements in Two Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Machines

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 6925-6933

  Krebs, Ilse ^a,b   Smretschnig, Eva ^a,b   Moussa, Sarah ^b   Brannath, Werner ^c   Womastek, Irene ^c   Binder, Susanne ^a,b  

^a LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINAL THICKNESS; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; ALGORITHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; EXUDATIVE MACULAR DEGENERATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; VISUAL ACUITY;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; WET MACULAR DEGENERATION;

EID: 80054866174     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6612     Document Type: Article

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