Flicker-induced changes in retinal blood flow assessed by Doppler optical coherence tomography

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1852-1860

  Wang, Yimin ^a   Fawzi, Amani A ^b   Tan, Ou ^a   Zhang, Xinbo ^a   Huang, David ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTERIAL FLOW; ARTERIAL VESSELS; BLOOD FLOW; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; DOPPLER; DOPPLER OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; FOURIER DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTIC DISC; RETINAL BLOOD FLOW;

HEMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84863840560     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.2.001852     Document Type: Article

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