Comparison of macular pigment in patients with age-related macular degeneration and healthy control subjects - A study using spectral fundus reflectance

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Kaya, Semira ^a   Weigert, Günther ^a   Pemp, Berthold ^a   Sacu, Stefan ^a   Werkmeister, René Marcel ^b   Dragostinoff, Nikolaus ^b   Garhöfer, Gerhard ^a   Schmidt Erfurth, Ursula ^a   Schmetterer, Leopold ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Optical Imaging and its Translation to Medicine   (Austria)

Author keywords

age related macular degeneration; fundus reflectance; macular pigment optical density; objective measurement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MACULAR PIGMENT OPTICAL DENSITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SPECTRAL FUNDUS REFLECTANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; DENSITOMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LUTEIN; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENTS; XANTHOPHYLLS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864414052     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2012.02423.x     Document Type: Article

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