Relative course of retinal nerve fiber layer birefringence and thickness and retinal function changes after optic nerve transection

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4444-4452

  Fortune, Brad ^a,b   Cull, Grant A ^a   Burgoyne, Claude F ^a,b  

^a DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; DEVICE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE LESION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOPIC VISION; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL; RHESUS MONKEY; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; ANIMAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; LASER; MACACA; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ANIMALS; BIREFRINGENCE; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; LASERS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 53449095374     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2255     Document Type: Article

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