Relationship between foveal birefringence and visual acuity in neovascular age-related macular degeneration

Eye

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 353-361

  Weber, A ^a,b   Elsner, A E ^a   Miura, M ^c   Kompa, S ^b   Cheney, M C ^a  

^a SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING; MALE; PHOTORECEPTOR; POLARIMETRY; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33847638460     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6702203     Document Type: Article

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