Reliability and reproducibility of assessment of corneal epithelial thickness by fourier domain optical coherence tomography

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2580-2585

  Prakash, Gaurav ^a   Agarwal, Amar ^a   Mazhari, Anjum Iqbal ^a   Charz, Mathangi ^a   Kumar, Dhivya Ashok ^a   Kumar, Gautam ^a   Singh, Bunty ^a  

^a Dr Agarwal's Eye Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORNEAL EPITHELIAL THICKNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FOURIER DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860602410     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8981     Document Type: Article

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