The mechanisms of vision loss associated with a cotton wool spot

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 2826-2834

  Chui, Toco Y P ^a   Thibos, Larry N ^a   Bradley, Arthur ^a   Burns, Stephen A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Cotton wool spot; Optical coherence tomography; Retinal nerve fiber layer; Retinal sampling; Scanning laser ophthalmoscope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COTTON WOOL SPOT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EYE FUNDUS; HUMAN; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA IMAGE; RETINA ISCHEMIA; RETINA NERVE CELL; SCOTOMA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISION; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 70449527371     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.08.017     Document Type: Article

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