Macular pigment density at the site of altered fundus autofluorescence

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 249, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 499-504

  Rothenbuehler, Simon Paul ^a   Wolf Schnurrbusch, Ute E K ^a   Wolf, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Age related maculopathy; Fundus autofluorescence; Macular pigment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL DENSITY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; RETINA MACULOPATHY; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LASERS; LUTEIN; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL PIGMENTS; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 79955631127     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-010-1528-1     Document Type: Article

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