In vivo imaging of retinal pigment epithelium cells in age related macular degeneration

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2527-2539

  Rossi, Ethan A ^a   Rangel Fonseca, Piero ^b   Parkins, Keith ^a   Fischer, William ^c   Latchney, Lisa R ^c   Folwell, Margaret A ^a   Williams, David R ^a,d   Dubra, Alfredo ^e   Chung, Mina M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN ÓPTICA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^e MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION;

AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CHROMATIC ABERRATION; IMAGE INTENSITIES; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE EXPOSURE; RADIANT EXPOSURE; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; SHORT-WAVELENGTH;

ABERRATIONS;

ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FUNDUS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION;

EID: 84887196401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.4.002527     Document Type: Article

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