Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging reveals visual pathway damage that correlates with clinical severity in glaucoma

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 43-49

  Chen, Zhiqi ^a   Lin, Fuchun ^b   Wang, Junming ^a   Li, Zheng ^a   Dai, Hui ^a   Mu, Ketao ^a   Ge, Jian ^c   Zhang, Hong ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor imaging; Neurodegenerative disease; Primary open angle glaucoma; Tract based spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC TRACT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; VISION; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBERS; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL FIELD TESTS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873092628     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2012.02832.x     Document Type: Article

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