Morphometry of the retrobulbar human optic nerve: Comparison between conventional sonography and ultrafast magnetic resonance sequences

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1913-1917

  Lagrèze, Wolf A ^a   Lazzaro, Alexander ^a   Weigel, Matthias ^a   Hansen, Hans Christian ^b   Hennig, Jürgen ^a   Bley, Thorsten A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Friedrich Ebert Krankenhaus   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A SCAN; ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CELL LOSS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GAZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYELIN SHEATH;

ADULT; AGED; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MYELIN SHEATH; OPTIC NERVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34250182757     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-1075     Document Type: Article

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