Retinal nerve fiber layer imaging with spectral-domain optical coherence tomography: A prospective analysis of age-related loss

Ophthalmology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 731-737

  Leung, Christopher K S ^a   Yu, Marco ^a   Weinreb, Robert N ^b   Ye, Cong ^a   Liu, Shu ^a   Lai, Gilda ^a   Lam, Dennis S C ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC DISK; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA NERVE CELL; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84862820152     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.10.010     Document Type: Article

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