Continuous retinal vessel diameter measurements: The future in retinal vessel assessment?

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5833-5839

  Heitmar, Rebekka ^a   Blann, Andrew D ^b   Cubbidge, Robert P ^a   Lip, Gregory Y H ^a,b   Gherghel, Doina ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SEQUENTIAL AND DIAMTER RESPONSE ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SPHYGMOMANOMETRY; TONOMETRY;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 79956057771     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-5136     Document Type: Article

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