Twelve-hour reproducibility of retinal and optic nerve blood flow parameters in healthy individuals

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 87, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 875-880

  Luksch, Alexandra ^a   Lasta, Michael ^a   Polak, Kaija ^a   Fuchsjäger Mayrl, Gabriele ^a   Polska, Elzbieta ^a   Garhöfer, Gerhard ^a   Schmetterer, Leopold ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Diurnal variation; Human; Optic nerve head blood flow; Reproducibility; Retinal blood flow; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINA VEIN; RETINAL VESSEL ANALYZER; TECHNIQUE; TONOMETRY; VEIN DIAMETER;

ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMANS; MALE; OPTIC NERVE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL VESSELS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73349142987     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2008.01388.x     Document Type: Article

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