Agreement between retinal nerve fiber layer measures from spectralis and cirrus spectral domain OCT

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Patel, Nimesh B ^a   Wheat, Joe L ^a   Rodriguez, Aldon ^b   Tran, Victoria ^c   Harwerth, Ronald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

Author keywords

ocular biometry; retinal nerve fiber layer; spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

AXIAL LENGTH; CENTRATION; IN-VIVO IMAGING; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; NON-INVASIVE TECHNOLOGY; OCULAR BIOMETRY; OPTIC NERVE; RETINAL LAYERS; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYERS; RETINAL VASCULATURE; RETINAL VESSELS; SCAN PATH; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OCT; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES;

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; EYE PROTECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

INSTRUMENTS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC DISK; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AGED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC DISK; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; ROC CURVE; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861031282     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e318238c34e     Document Type: Article

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