Agreement among three examiners of colour Doppler imaging retrobulbar blood flow velocity measurements

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 89, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Founti, Panayiota ^a   Harris, Alon ^b   Papadopoulou, Domniki ^a   Emmanouilidis, Petros ^a   Siesky, Brent ^b   Kilintzis, Vassilis ^a   Anastasopoulos, Eleftherios ^a   Salonikiou, Angeliki ^a   Pappas, Theofanis ^a   Topouzis, Fotis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

colour Doppler imaging; interobserver agreement; ocular blood flow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CENTRAL RETINA ARTERY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA ARTERY;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; ORBIT; REFERENCE VALUES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL ARTERY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 82155175724     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2011.02236.x     Document Type: Article

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