Position of retinal blood vessels correlates with retinal nerve fibre layer thickness profiles as measured with GDx VCC and ECC

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 680-684

  Resch, Hemma ^a   Brela, Barbara ^a   Resch Wolfslehner, Christa ^a   Vass, Clemens ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC DISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA NERVE FIBER LAYER; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC DISK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL VESSELS; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL FIELD TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955002983     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2009.170068     Document Type: Article

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