Using ultrahigh sensitive optical microangiography to achieve comprehensive depth resolved microvasculature mapping for human retina

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  An, Lin ^a   Shen, Tueng T ^a,b   Wang, Ruikang K ^a,b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Microvasculature imaging; Optical microangiography; Retinal imaging; Spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; EYE DISEASE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; MICROVASCULATURE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; STATISTICS; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; EYE DISEASES; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; MICROVESSELS; MOVEMENT; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; RETINAL VESSELS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84866645429     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3642638     Document Type: Article

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