Fundus autofluorescence imaging compared with different confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopes

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1381-1386

  Bellmann, C ^a,b   Rubin, G S ^a   Kabanarou, S A ^a,b   Bird, A C ^a,b   Fitzke, F W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOFUSCIN;

ARGON LASER; ARTICLE; CENTRAL SEROUS RETINOPATHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNDUS AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; IN VIVO STUDY; OPHTHALMOSCOPE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ANGIOGRAPHY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPES; RETINAL DISEASES;

EID: 0344874682     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.87.11.1381     Document Type: Article

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