Retrobulbar optic nerve diameter measured by high-speed magnetic resonance imaging as a biomarker for axonal loss in glaucomatous optic atrophy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4223-4228

  Lagrèze, Wolf A ^a   Gaggl, Mirjam ^a   Weigel, Matthias ^a   Schulte Mönting, Jürgen ^a   Bühler, Anima ^a   Bach, Michael ^a   Munk, Robin D ^a   Bley, Thorsten A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED PERIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMATOUS OPTIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NERVE CELL; RETROBULBAR OPTIC NERVE; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; SCANNING LASER TOMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; PATHOLOGY; PERIMETRY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC ATROPHY; OPTIC DISK; PERIMETRY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 70349257365     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2683     Document Type: Article

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