Long-term SD-OCT/SLO imaging of neuroretina and retinal pigment epithelium after subthreshold infrared laser treatment of drusen

Retina

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 235-242

  Mojana, Francesca ^a   Brar, Manpreet ^a   Cheng, Lingyun ^a   Bartsch, Dirk Uwe G ^a   Freeman, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

agerelated macular degeneration; autofluorescence; photoreceptors; Spectral domain OCT SLO; subthreshold laser

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; BURN; CASE REPORT; DIODE LASER; DRUSEN; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; FOCAL ADHESION; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER COAGULATION; LONG TERM CARE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTORECEPTOR INNER SEGMENT; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; MACULAR DEGENERATION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; RETINAL DRUSEN; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 79551564881     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e3181ec80ad     Document Type: Article

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