Adjustment of the retinal angle in SD-OCT of glaucomatous eyes provides better intervisit reproducibility of peripapillary RNFL thickness

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 4808-4812

  Lee, Kyungmoo ^a   Sonka, Milan ^a,b   Kwon, Young H ^b   Garvin, Mona K ^a,c   Abràmoff, Michael D ^a,b,c  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness; Retinal angle adjustment; Spectral domain coherence tomography (SD OCT)

Indexed keywords

A SCAN; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINAL ANGLE; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

PERIPAPILLARY RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER (RNFL) THICKNESS; RETINAL ANGLE ADJUSTMENT; SPECTRAL-DOMAIN COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (SD-OCT);

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC NERVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84880428491     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.13-12211     Document Type: Article

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