Differential vulnerability of retinal layers to early age-related macular degeneration: Evidence by SD-OCT segmentation analysis

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 560-566

  Savastano, Maria Cristina ^a   Minnella, Angelo Maria ^a   Tamburrino, Antonello ^b   Giovinco, Gaspare ^b   Ventre, Salvatore ^b   Falsini, Benedetto ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Age related maculopathy; Automated segmentation analysis; Ischemia; Postreceptoral retina; Spectral domain optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION ANALYSIS; B SCAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GANGLION CELL LAYER; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INNER NUCLEAR LAYER; INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; OUTER NUCLEAR LAYER; OUTER PLEXIFORM LAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

EID: 84893156025     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.13-12172     Document Type: Article

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