Morphologic changes in patients with geographic atrophy assessed with a novel spectral OCT-SLO combination

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 3095-3099

  Wolf Schnurrbusch, Ute E K ^a   Enzmann, Volker ^a   Brinkmann, Christian K ^a   Wolf, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHOTORECEPTOR MEMBRANE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; THERMOGRAPHY; ATROPHY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EYE FUNDUS; FLUORESCENCE; INFRARED RADIATION; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR; RETINA;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTORECEPTORS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 48249091619     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-1460     Document Type: Article

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