Characterization of Stargardt disease using polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography and fundus autofluorescence imaging

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 6416-6425

  Ritter, Markus ^a   Zotter, Stefan ^b   Schmidt, Wolfgang M ^a   Bittner, Reginald E ^a   Deak, Gabor G ^a   Pircher, Michael ^b   Sacu, Stefan ^a   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^b   Schmidt Erfurth, Ursula M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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

Author keywords

Image analysis; Optical coherence tomography; Retinal dystrophy

Indexed keywords

ABCA4 GENE; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; B SCAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STARGARDT DISEASE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RETINAL DYSTROPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; AUSTRIA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884758889     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-11550     Document Type: Article

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