Wide-field optical coherence tomography of the choroid in vivo

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1856-1863

  Považay, Boris ^a   Hermann, Boris ^a   Hofer, Bernd ^a   Kajić, Vedran ^a   Simpson, Elizabeth ^a   Bridgford, Thomas ^a   Drexler, Wolfgang ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CAPILLARY; CHOROID; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SCLERA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; RETINA; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; CHOROID; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RETINA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64049106926     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2869     Document Type: Article

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