Retinal nerve fiber layer thickness reproducibility using seven different OCT instruments

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 5912-5920

  Pierro, Luisa ^a   Gagliardi, Marco ^a   Iuliano, Lorenzo ^a   Ambrosi, Alessandro ^a   Bandello, Francesco ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A SCAN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; MALE; MONITORING; NORMAL HUMAN; OPERATOR; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; NERVE FIBER; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPTIC DISK; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADULT; CALIBRATION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPTIC DISK; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84871708678     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8644     Document Type: Article

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