Reproducibility of pixel-by-pixel analysis of Heidelberg retinal flowmetry images: The Thessaloniki eye study

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-86

  Mavroudis, Leonidas ^a   Harris, Alon ^b   Topouzis, Fotis ^a   Wilson, M Roy ^c   Yu, Fei ^d   Anastasopoulos, Eleftherios ^a   Koskosas, Archimidis ^a   Siesky, Brent ^b   Pappas, Theofanis ^a   Founti, Panayiota ^a   Coleman, Anne L ^d  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Glaucoma; Heidelberg retina flowmeter; Laser Doppler flowmetry; Neuroretinal rim

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GREECE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE QUALITY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 39349114625     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 16000420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2007.01003.x     Document Type: Article

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