Precise thickness measurements of bowman's layer, epithelium, and tear film

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Schmoll, Tilman ^a   Unterhuber, Angelika ^b   Kolbitsch, Christoph ^a   Le, Tuan ^b   Stingl, Andreas ^b   Leitgeb, Rainer ^a  

^a Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Optical Imaging and its Translation to Medicine   (Austria)

^b FEMTOLASERS PRODUKTIONS GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

anterior segment; Bowman's layer thickness; corneal epithelium thickness; optical coherence tomography; photorefractive surgery; precorneal tear film; tear film thickness

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR SEGMENT; CORNEAL EPITHELIUM; LAYER THICKNESS; PHOTO-REFRACTIVE; PRECORNEAL TEAR FILM;

MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOREACTIVITY; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SURGERY; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TISSUE;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KERATOMETRY; LACRIMAL FLUID; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUE; REFRACTION ERROR; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEARS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84861097388     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e3182504346     Document Type: Article

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