In vivo volumetric imaging of the human corneo-scleral limbus with spectral domain OCT

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1794-1802

  Bizheva, Kostadinka ^a   Hutchings, Natalie ^a   Sorbara, Luigina ^a   Moayed, Alireza A ^a   Simpson, Trefford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; COHERENT LIGHT; STEM CELLS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; TISSUE;

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; CORNEAL EPITHELIUM; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OCT; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; TRABECULAR MESHWORKS; TRANSITIONAL REGIONS; VOLUMETRIC IMAGING;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 80054941594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.2.001794     Document Type: Article

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