Does retinal vascular geometry vary with cardiac cycle?

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 5799-5805

  Hao, Hao ^a,g   Sasongko, Muhammad B ^b,c,g   Wong, Tien Y ^b,d,e,g   Che Azemin, Mohd Zulfaezal ^a,f,g   Aliahmad, Behzad ^a,g   Hodgson, Lauren ^b,g   Kawasaki, Ryo ^b,g   Cheung, Carol Y ^d,e,g   Wang, Jie Jin ^b,g,h   Kumar, Dinesh K ^a,g  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^d SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^f INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^g NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULAR BLOOD VESSEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; ARTERIOLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VOLUME; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART RATE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA VEIN; VENULE;

ADULT; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD VOLUME; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VEIN; VENULES;

EID: 84870553373     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-9326     Document Type: Article

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