Microstructural alterations of retinal arterial blood column along the vessel axis in systemic hypertension

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2165-2172

  Kotliar, Konstantin ^a   Nage, Edgar ^b   Vilser, Walthard ^c   Seidova, Seid Fatima ^b   Lanzl, Ines ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Department of Nagel Eye Clinic ^*  (Germany)

^c ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; EVOKE RETINAL VASODILATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUMINANCE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; VASODILATATION; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA DISEASE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL DISEASES; VASODILATION;

EID: 77951220852     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3649     Document Type: Article

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