Relationships of retinal vessel diameters with optic disc, macular and retinal nerve fiber layer parameters in 6-year-old children

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2403-2408

  Cheung, Ning ^a   Huynh, Son ^b   Wang, Jie J ^a,b   Taylor, Bronwen ^b   Islam, F M Amirul ^a   Saw, Seang M ^c   Wong, Tien Y ^a,c   Mitchell, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTERIOLE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EYE DISEASE; EYE FUNDUS ALBIPUNCTATUS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC DISK; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POPULATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; RETINA NERVE CELL; STANDARD; VEIN DIAMETER; VENULE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ARTERIOLES; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC DISK; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL VESSELS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VENULES;

EID: 47249105952     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-1313     Document Type: Article

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