Photopic and Scotopic Fine Matrix Mapping of Retinal Areas of Increased Fundus Autofluorescence in Patients with Age-Related Maculopathy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 574-583

  Scholl, Hendrik P N ^a,b   Bellmann, Caren ^a   Dandekar, Samantha S ^a   Bird, Alan C ^a   Fitzke, Frederick W ^a  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUSEN; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGING; MALE; NIGHT VISION; OPHTHALMOSCOPE; PHOTOPIC VISION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; RETINA ROD; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; DARK ADAPTATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; FUNDUS OCULI; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OPHTHALMOSCOPES; PHENOTYPE; RETINA; RETINAL DRUSEN; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0942287249     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-0495     Document Type: Article

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