Imaging retinal capillaries using ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography and adaptive optics

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 6292-6299

  Wang, Qiang ^a   Kocaoglu, Omer P ^a   Cense, Barry ^a,b   Bruestle, Jeremy ^a   Jonnal, Ravi S ^a   Gao, Weihua ^a   Miller, Donald T ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CAPILLARY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA FOVEA; VASCULARIZATION; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; EYE AXIS LENGTH; HISTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AXIAL LENGTH, EYE; CAPILLARIES; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL VESSELS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISION, ENTOPTIC; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 79952603807     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6424     Document Type: Article

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