Analysis of digital scanning laser ophthalmoscopy fundus autofluoroscence images of geographic atrophy in advanced age-related macular degeneration

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 73-78

  Schmitz Valckenberg, Steffen ^a   Jorzik, Jork ^a   Unnebrink, Kristina ^a   Holz, Frank G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; AUTOMATION; CHOROID VASCULARIZATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECORDING; RELIABILITY; RETINA ANGIOGRAPHY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; TIME;

EID: 0036944586     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-001-0413-3     Document Type: Article

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