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nerve
(redirected from retinal nerve fiber layer)

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nerve: see nervous system nervous system, network of specialized tissue that controls actions and reactions of the body and its adjustment to the environment. Virtually all members of the animal kingdom have at least a rudimentary nervous system.
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Figure 1 shows the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness in each quadrant, as measured by optical coherence tomography, for each of the patient's eyes after 9, 10, and 15 months, alongside values for historical groups of healthy subjects and of patients in an advanced stage of LHON (with atrophy of the optic nerve) (Barboni et al.
The HRT scans the patient's eye with a beam of light, producing a topographical or surface image of a patient's optic disc, and then measures the key structures known as cup, rim and retinal nerve fiber layer.
providing an objective analysis of the structure's cup, rim and retinal nerve fiber layer.
 
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