Volumetric colour Doppler imaging: A useful tool for the determination of ocular blood flow in glaucoma patients?

Eye

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 668-673

  Zeitz, O ^a   Vilchez, S E ^a,b   Matthiessen, E T ^a   Richard, G ^a   Klemm, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b Centro Oftalmológico del Noroeste   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Colour Doppler imaging; Dorzolamide; Glaucoma

Indexed keywords

DORZOLAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE BLOOD FLOW; FLOW RATE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA ARTERY; TONOMETRY;

EID: 33745105730     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6701935     Document Type: Article

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