Automated morphometry of the visual pathway in primary open-angle glaucoma

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2758-2766

  Hernowo, Aditya T ^a,b   Boucard, Christine C ^c   Jansonius, Nomdo M ^a   Hooymans, Johanna M M ^a   Cornelissen, Frans W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED MORPHOMETRY; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; SCOTOMA; VISUAL FIELD TESTS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 79955985773     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5682     Document Type: Article

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