Corneal responses to eye rubbing with spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Current Eye Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 25-32

  Prakasam, Ruby K ^a   Schwiede, Mario ^a   Htz, Werner W ^b   Guthoff, Rudolf F ^a   Stachs, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b Klinikum Bad Hersfeld   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bowman's membrane thickness; Corneal thickness; Epithelial thickness; Eye rubbing; Optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA THICKNESS; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADULT; CORNEA; EYE INJURIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83655191288     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02713683.2011.622850     Document Type: Article

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