Analysis of mean retinal transit time from fluorescein angiography in human eyes: Normal values and reproducibility

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 652-655

  Bjarnhall G ^a   Maepea O ^a   Sperber, G O ^b   Linden C ^c   Monestram E ^c   Alm, A ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arterio venous passage time; Fluorescein angiography; Impulse response analysis; Mean transit time; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITALIZATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BLOOD CIRCULATION; BLOOD CIRCULATION TIME; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPES; REFERENCE VALUES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 0036915116     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0420.2002.800617.x     Document Type: Article

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