Effect of aging on retinal artery blood column diameter measured along the vessel axis

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2094-2102

  Kotliar, Konstantin E ^a,c   Mücke, Bruno ^a   Vilser, Walthard ^b   Schilling, Rudolf ^c   Lanzl, Ines M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTOMETRY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA ARTERY; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; HEART RATE; LIGHT; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL ARTERY; VASODILATION;

EID: 44649160252     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0711     Document Type: Article

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