Optic nerve atrophy and retinal nerve fibre layer thinning following optic neuritis: Evidence that axonal loss is a substrate of MRI-detected atrophy

NeuroImage

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 286-293

  Trip, S Anand ^a,b   Schlottmann, Patricio G ^b   Jones, Stephen J ^c   Li, Wai Yung ^c   Garway Heath, David F ^b   Thompson, Alan J ^a   Plant, Gordon T ^b   Miller, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; OPTIC NEURITIS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC ATROPHY; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NEURITIS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; RETINA; RETROGRADE DEGENERATION; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISION TESTS;

EID: 33646567522     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.11.051     Document Type: Article

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