Optical coherence tomography and autofluorescence findings in areas with geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-6

  Schmitz Valckenberg, Steffen ^a   Fleckenstein, Monika ^a   Göbel, Arno P ^a   Hohman, Thomas C ^b   Holz, Frank G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b ALCON RESEARCH LTD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CHOROID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PHOTORECEPTOR INNER SEGMENT; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA INJURY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUSEN; FLUORESCENCE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINA; RETINAL DRUSEN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 79951809103     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5619     Document Type: Article

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