Imaging polarimetry in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1468-1480

  Elsner, Ann E ^a   Weber, Anke ^b   Cheney, Michael C ^c   VanNasdale, Dean A ^a   Miura, Masahiro ^d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c Atlantis Components Inc   (United States)

^d TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIREFRINGENCE; LASER APPLICATIONS; PATIENT TREATMENT; POLARIMETERS; REFLECTION; VISION;

DEPOLARIZED LIGHT; IMAGING POLARIMETRY; RETINAL IMAGES; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETER;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETINA NEOVASCULARIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34249738596     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.24.001468     Document Type: Article

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