Retinal vessel tortuosity measures and their applications

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 106, Issue , 2013, Pages 40-46

  Kalitzeos, Angelos A ^a   Lip, Gregory Y H ^a   Heitmar, Rebekka ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular risk; Curvature; Microcirculation; Retinal vessel tortuosity

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DIGITAL IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; METRIC SYSTEM; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA EXAMINATION; RETINAL VESSEL TORTUOSITY; SHORT SURVEY; STANDARDIZATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

CAPILLARIES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 84870538288     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2012.10.015     Document Type: Short Survey

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