Atypical retardation patterns in scanning laser polarimetry are associated with low peripapillary choroidal thickness

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 7523-7528

  Tornow, Ralf P ^a   Schrems, Wolfgang A ^a   Bendschneider, Delia ^a   Horn, Folkert K ^a   Mayer, Markus ^b   Mardin, Christian Y ^a   Lämmer, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; B SCAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTIC NERVE FIBER; PERIMETRY; PERIPAPILLARY CHOROIDAL THICKNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; BIREFRINGENCE; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CHOROID; EYE REFRACTION; HISTOLOGY; LIGHT; NERVE FIBER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SCLERA;

BIREFRINGENCE; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CHOROID; HUMANS; LIGHT; NERVE FIBERS; REFRACTION, OCULAR; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; SCLERA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL FIELD TESTS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84856390797     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-7557     Document Type: Article

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