Repeatability of in vivo corneal confocal microscopy to quantify corneal nerve morphology

Cornea

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Petropoulos, Ioannis N ^a,b   Manzoor, Tauseef ^a   Morgan, Philip ^a   Fadavi, Hassan ^a,b   Asghar, Omar ^a,b   Alam, Uazman ^a,b   Ponirakis, Georgios ^a,b   Dabbah, Mohammad A ^a,b   Chen, Xin ^a   Graham, James ^a   Tavakoli, Mitra ^a,b   Malik, Rayaz A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

diabetic neuropathy; In vivo corneal confocal microscopy; repeatability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHOLESTEROL; CORNEA; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876283254     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3182749419     Document Type: Article

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