3-D histomorphometry of the normal and early glaucomatous monkey optic nerve head: Prelaminar neural tissues and cupping

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 5068-5084

  Yang, Hongli ^a   Downs, J Crawford ^a,b   Bellezza, Anthony ^c   Thompson, Hilary ^d   Burgoyne, Claude F ^a,b,e  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Third Eye Associates   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^e DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CALCULATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; GLAUCOMA; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MONKEY; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLERA; STAINING; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TISSUE SECTION; ANIMAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; DISEASE MODEL; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MACACA; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; AXONS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLAUCOMA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 38449105796     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0790     Document Type: Article

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