Quantitative analysis of corneal subbasal nerve plexus with in vivo confocal laser scanning microscopy;Quantitative Analyse des subbasalen Nervenplexus der Kornea mittels in vivo konfokaler Laser-Scanning-Mikroskopie

Klinische Monatsblatter fur Augenheilkunde

Volumn 228, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1067-1072

  Zhivov, A ^a   Winter, K ^b   Peschel, S ^a   Guthoff, R F ^a   Stachs, O ^a   Harder, V ^c   Schober, H C ^c   Koehler, B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c Klinik für Innere Medizin i   (Germany)

^d KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

confocal microscopy; cornea; subbasal nerve plexus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CORNEA; CORNEAL SUBBASAL NERVE PLEXUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE PLEXUS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CORNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 83655167285     PISSN: 00232165     EISSN: 14393999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1281663     Document Type: Article

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