Age-related rarefaction in the fractal dimension of retinal vessel

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 194.e1-194.e4

  Azemin, Mohd Zulfaezal Che ^a   Kumar, Dinesh Kant ^a   Wong, Tien Y ^b,c,d   Wang, Jie Jin ^b,e   Mitchell, Paul ^e   Kawasaki, Ryo ^b   Wu, Henry ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Centre for Eye Research   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging complexity theory; Fractal dimension; Retinal vasculature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA IMAGE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 81355132331     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2010.04.010     Document Type: Article

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