The Retinal Vasculature as a Fractal: Methodology, Reliability, and Relationship to Blood Pressure

Ophthalmology

Volumn 115, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Liew, Gerald ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^a,b   Cheung, Ning ^b   Zhang, Yong Ping ^c,d   Hsu, Wynne ^c   Lee, Mong Li ^c   Mitchell, Paul ^a   Tikellis, Gabriella ^b   Taylor, Bronwen ^a   Wong, Tien Yin ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NINGBO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 54949136464     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2008.05.029     Document Type: Article

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