An approach to measure blood flow in single choroidal vessel using doppler optical coherence tomography

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 7137-7141

  Miura, Masahiro ^a   Makita, Shuichi ^b   Iwasaki, Takuya ^a   Yasuno, Yoshiaki ^b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHOROID VASCULARIZATION; DOPPLER OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; EYE BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW; CHOROID; CILIARY ARTERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARD; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHOROID; CILIARY ARTERIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PULSATILE FLOW; REFERENCE VALUES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84871892837     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-10666     Document Type: Article

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