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The three-dimensional (3D) structure of the optic nerve head (ONH), the peripapillary thickness of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), and the ganglion cell complex (GCC) can be visualized objectively and assessed quantitatively with accuracy and precision using OCT.
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Wang, B., Wollstein, G., Schuman, J.S. (2016). Optic Nerve: Optical Coherence Tomography. In: Giaconi, J., Law, S., Nouri-Mahdavi, K., Coleman, A., Caprioli, J. (eds) Pearls of Glaucoma Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49042-6_5
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