A Pilot Study of Morphometric Analysis of Choroidal Vasculature In Vivo, Using En Face Optical Coherence Tomography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Sohrab, Mahsa ^a   Wu, Katherine ^a   Fawzi, Amani A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHOROID CAPILLARY LAYER; CHOROID VASCULARIZATION; CHOROIDAL THICKNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUSEN; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PILOT STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROID; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RETINAL DRUSEN; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84870017839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048631     Document Type: Article

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