Morphometric age-related evaluation of small retinal vessels by scanning laser doppler flowmetry: Determination of a vessel wall index

Retina

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 490-498

  Michelson, Georg ^a,d   Wärntges, Simone ^a   Baleanu, Delia ^a   Welzenbach, Jürgen ^b   Ohno Jinno, Akiko ^c   Pogorelov, Pavel ^a   Harazny, Joanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b 3Soft GmbH   (Germany)

^c AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Retinal vessels; Scanning laser Doppler flowmetry; Vessel wall

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA VEIN; VEIN DIAMETER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VEIN; VENULES;

EID: 34247262104     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.iae.0000243032.33738.f7     Document Type: Article

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