Quantitative 3-dimensional corneal imaging in vivo using a modified hrt-rcm confocal microscope

Cornea

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Petroll, W Matthew ^a   Weaver, Matthew ^a   Vaidya, Saurabh ^a   McCulley, James P ^a   Cavanagh, H Dwight ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

3 D reconstruction; confocal microscopy; cornea; imaging

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORNEAL PACHYMETRY; ENDOTHELIUM; IMAGING SOFTWARE; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CORNEA; CORNEAL KERATOCYTES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RABBITS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84875228347     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31825ec44e     Document Type: Article

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