Comparison of standard versus wide-field composite images of the corneal subbasal layer by in vivo confocal microscopy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 5801-5807

  Kheirkhah, Ahmad ^a   Muller, Rodrigo ^a,b,c   Mikolajczak, Janine ^d   Ren, Ai ^a   Kadas, Ella Maria ^d   Zimmermann, Hanna ^d   Pruess, Harald ^d,e   Paul, Friedemann ^d   Brandt, Alexander U ^d   Hamrah, Pedram ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^e GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corneal nerves; In vivo confocal microscopy; Wide field composite images

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CORNEA; CORNEAL SUBBASAL LAYER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CELL COUNT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; INNERVATION; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; CELL COUNT; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENDRITES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84940849935     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.15-17434     Document Type: Article

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