CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY OF THE HUMAN CORNEA
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2007-11-30
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Chiang Mai Medical Journal
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Confocal microscope is an ophthalmic instrument that provides real-time and non-invasive serial imaging of cornea. With the principle of both projecting of light to the tissue and focusing lens have the same focal point, it has a high magnification of 40X to visualize many layers of cornea, in sequence, the epithelial layer, subepithelial nerve plexus (which has not demonstrated by any instrument before), stroma (the most thickness layer that comprised of keratocytes and matrix), and endothelium. Therefore, this instrument can apply for a clinical use in the studies of cornea.
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Chiang Mai Medical Journal; Vol.46 No.2 June 2007 (pages 45 - 91); 83 - 91