Quantitative morphometry of perifoveal capillary networks in the human retina

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 5502-5514

  Chan, Geoffrey ^a,b   Balaratnasingam, Chandrakumar ^a,b   Yu, Paula K ^a,b   Morgan, William H ^a   McAllister, Ian L ^a   Cringle, Stephen J ^a,b   Yu, Dao Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CAPILLARY; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CADAVER; HISTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CADAVER; CAPILLARIES; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL VESSELS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867910312     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-10265     Document Type: Article

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