Macular choroidal thickness profile in a healthy population measured by swept-source optical coherence tomography

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3532-3542

  Ruiz Medrano, Jorge ^a   Flores Moreno, Ignacio ^b   Peña García, Pablo ^c   Montero, Javier A ^d   Duker, Jay S ^e   Ruiz Moreno, José M ^b,f  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^c MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO RÍO HORTEGA   (Spain)

^e TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f Alicante   (Spain)

Author keywords

Choroidal thickness; Healthy population; SS OCT; Swept source OCT

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHOROID; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MACULAR CHOROIDAL THICKNESS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SWEPT SOURCE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; YOUNG ADULT;

CHOROIDAL THICKNESS; HEALTHY POPULATION; SS-OCT; SWEPT-SOURCE OCT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOROID; CHOROID DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902288230     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-13868     Document Type: Article

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