Measuring retinal nerve fiber layer birefringence, retardation, and thickness using wide-field, high-speed polarization sensitive spectral domain OCT

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 72-84

  Zotter, Stefan ^a   Pircher, Michael ^a   Götzinger, Erich ^a   Torzicky, Teresa ^a   Yoshida, Hirofumi ^b   Hirose, Futoshi ^b   Holzer, Stephan ^c   Kroisamer, Julia ^c   Vass, Clemens ^c   Schmidt Erfurth, Ursula ^c   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a  

^a Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Optical Imaging and its Translation to Medicine   (Austria)

^b CANON INC   (Japan)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A SCAN; ADULT; ARTICLE; B SCAN; BIREFRINGENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; RETINAL THICKNESS; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOLOGY; GLAUCOMA; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; BIREFRINGENCE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874523954     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-10089     Document Type: Article

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