Asymmetry of retinal arteriolar branch widths at junctions affects ability of formulae to predict trunk arteriolar widths

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1329-1333

  Patton, Niall ^a,b   Aslam, Tariq ^c   MacGillivray, Tom ^d   Dhillon, Baljean ^a   Constable, Ian ^b  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA EYE PAVILION   (United Kingdom)

^b LIONS EYE INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c MANCHESTER ROYAL EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERY; ALGORITHM; ARTERIOLE; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ARTERIOLES; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL ARTERY;

EID: 33645960165     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-1248     Document Type: Article

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