Conformal geometry of the retinal nerve fiber layer

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 50, 2008, Pages 19690-19695

  Airaksinen, P Juhani ^a   Doro, Stephen ^b   Veijola, Jukka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b Edward S Harkness Eye Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Embryology; Optic nerve; Retina

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; EMBRYO CELL; GANGLION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC NERVE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA NERVE CELL; THEORY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HISTOLOGY;

AXONS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OPTIC NERVE; RETINA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 58149374553     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0801621105     Document Type: Article

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