Effect of age on individual retinal layer thickness in normal eyes as measured with spectral-domain optical coherence tomography

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 4934-4940

  Demirkaya, Nazli ^a   van Dijk, Hille W ^a   van Schuppen, Sanne M ^a   Abràmoff, Michael D ^b,c,d   Garvin, Mona K ^b,d   Sonka, Milan ^b,c   Schlingemann, Reinier O ^a,e   Verbraak, Frank D ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Retinal layer thickness; SD OCT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTIC DISK; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; SLIT LAMP; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

AGING; RETINAL LAYER THICKNESS; SD-OCT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALGORITHMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880694981     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.13-11913     Document Type: Article

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