Ultrahigh resolution optical coherence tomography of the monkey fovea. Identification of retinal sublayers by correlation with semithin histology sections

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1117-1125

  Anger, Elisabeth M ^a   Unterhuber, Angelika ^a   Hermann, Boris ^a   Sattmann, Harald ^a   Schubert, Christian ^a   Morgan, James E ^b   Cowey, Alan ^b   Ahnelt, Peter K ^a   Drexler, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fovea; Macaca; Macula; Morphing; Photoreceptors; Retina; Ultrahigh resolution OCT

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DESICCATION; GEOMETRY; HISTOLOGY; IDENTITY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA FOVEA;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; FOVEA CENTRALIS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; OPTIC DISK; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; RETINA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 1942423128     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2004.01.011     Document Type: Article

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