Foveal avascular zone and its relationship to foveal pit shape

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 602-610

  Chui, Toco Y P ^a   Zhong, Zhangyi ^a   Song, Hongxin ^a   Burns, Stephen A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope; foveal avascular zone; foveal pit morphology; retina; retinal thickness; spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

FOVEAL AVASCULAR ZONES; PIT MORPHOLOGY; RETINA; RETINAL THICKNESS; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES;

ALUMINUM CORROSION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REFERENCE VALUE; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA FOVEA; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; CAPILLARIES; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; RETINAL VESSELS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861031280     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e3182504227     Document Type: Article

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