3D visualization of aqueous humor outflow structures in-situ in humans

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 308-315

  Kagemann, Larry ^a,b   Wollstein, Gadi ^a   Ishikawa, Hiroshi ^a,b   Sigal, Ian A ^a,b   Folio, Lindsey S ^a   Xu, Juan ^a   Gong, Haiyan ^c   Schuman, Joel S ^a,b,d  

^a University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqueous; Glaucoma; Intraocular pressure; Optical coherence tomography; Outflow; Schlemm's canal

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS HUMOR OUTFLOW; AQUEOUS VEIN; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA LIMBUS; EPISCLERAL VEIN; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; OCULAR BLOOD VESSEL; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; AQUEOUS HUMOR; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LIMBUS CORNEAE; SCLERA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

EID: 80054909876     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2011.03.019     Document Type: Article

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