Ocular fundus auto-fluorescence observations at different wavelengths in patients with age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 246, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 105-114

  Hammer, Martin ^a   Königsdörffer, Ekkehart ^a   Liebermann, Christiane ^a   Framme, Carsten ^b   Schuch, Günter ^b   Schweitzer, Dietrich ^a   Strobel, Jürgen ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Colour autofluorescence imaging; Diabetic retinopathy; Fundus auto fluorescence

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED GLYCATION END PRODUCT; COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; LIPOFUSCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIGITAL IMAGING; EYE FUNDUS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LASER COAGULATION; OPTIC DISK; PATHOGENESIS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPHAKIA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SCLERA; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION;

AGED; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FUNDUS OCULI; GLYCOSYLATION END PRODUCTS, ADVANCED; HUMANS; LIPOFUSCIN; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MIDDLE AGED; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 36448935654     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-007-0639-9     Document Type: Article

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