Detection of retinal nerve fiber layer defects in Alzheimer's disease using SD-OCT

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Kromer, Robert ^a   Serbecic, Nermin ^a   Hausner, Lucrezia ^b   Froelich, Lutz ^b   Aboul Enein, Fahmy ^c   Beutelspacher, Sven C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^c Department of Neurology SMZ Ost Donauspital ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Optical coherence tomography; Retinal nerve fiber layer; Retinal nerve fiber layer thickness

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE DURATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE LESION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER DEFECT; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

EID: 84895537180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00022     Document Type: Article

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