A comparison between laser interferometric measurement of fundus pulsation and pneumotonometric measurement of pulsatile ocular blood flow. 1. Baseline considerations

Eye

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 39-45

  Schmetterer, Leopold ^a,b   Dallinger, Susanne ^a   Findl, Oliver ^a   Eichler, Hans Georg ^a   Wolzt, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fundus pulsation; Ocular blood flow; Pneumotonometry

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPENTOLATE;

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EYE BLOOD FLOW; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PULSATILE FLOW; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; TONOMETRY;

EID: 0034052121     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2000.9     Document Type: Article

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