Normative database for corneal backscatter analysis by in vivo confocal microscopy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 7274-7281

  Hillenaar, Toine ^a,b   Cals, Roger H H ^b   Eilers, Paul H C ^c   Wubbels, René J ^a   van Cleynenbreugel, Hugo ^b   Remeijer, Lies ^b  

^a Glaucoma Research Unit   (Netherlands)

^b ROTTERDAM EYE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA THICKNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LIGHT SCATTERING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PACHOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; CHEMISTRY; FACTUAL DATABASE; LIGHT; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856403194     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-7747     Document Type: Article

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