Onset and progression of peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) retardance changes occur earlier than RNFL thickness changes in experimental glaucoma

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 5653-5660

  Fortune, Brad ^a   Burgoyne, Claude F ^a   Cull, Grant ^a   Reynaud, Juan ^a   Wang, Lin ^a  

^a DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Glaucoma; Optical coherence tomography; Retinal ganglion cell; Retinal nerve fiber layer; Scanning laser polarimetry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; RHESUS MONKEY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; TONOMETRY; TRABECULAR MESHWORK;

BIREFRINGENCE; GLAUCOMA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINAL GANGLION CELL; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY;

AGE OF ONSET; ANIMALS; BIREFRINGENCE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER THERAPY; LIGHT COAGULATION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS; RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SCANNING LASER POLARIMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84882769122     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.13-12219     Document Type: Article

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