Detection and analysis of hard exudates by polarization- sensitive optical coherence tomography in patients with diabetic maculopathy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1564-1571

  Lammer, Jan ^a   Bolz, Matthias ^a   Baumann, Bernhard ^b   Pircher, Michael ^b   Gerendas, Bianca ^a   Schlanitz, Ferdinand ^a   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^b   Schmidt Erfurth, Ursula ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

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

Author keywords

Color fundus photography; Diabetic maculopathy; Diabetic retinopathy; Hard exudates; Polarization sensitive oct

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR FUNDUS PHOTOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA EXUDATE; RETINA MACULOPATHY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL ACUITY;

COLOR FUNDUS PHOTOGRAPHY; DIABETIC MACULOPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; HARD EXUDATES; POLARIZATION-SENSITIVE OCT;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84896377153     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.13-13539     Document Type: Article

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