Human macula investigated in vivo with polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 5487-5494

  Pircher, Michael ^a   Götzinger, Erich ^a   Findl, Oliver ^a   Michels, Stephan ^a   Geitzenauer, Wolfgang ^a   Leydolt, Christina ^a   Schmidt Erfurth, Ursula ^a   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POLARIZATION AND DEPOLARIZATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RETINA DISEASE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; RETINAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 33846860376     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-1589     Document Type: Article

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