Correlations among near-infrared and short-wavelength autofluorescence and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography in recessive stargardt disease

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 8134-8143

  Duncker, Tobias ^a,b   Marsiglia, Marcela ^a   Lee, Winston ^a   Zernant, Jana ^a   Tsang, Stephen H ^a,c   Allikmets, Rando ^a,c   Greenstein, Vivienne C ^a   Sparrow, Janet R ^a,c  

^a Department of Ophthalmology Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

ABCA4; Fundus autofluorescence; Lipofuscin; Melanin; Optical coherence tomography; Recessive Stargardt disease; Retinal pigment epithelium; Scanning laser ophthalmoscope

Indexed keywords

LIPOFUSCIN; MELANIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL DISRUPTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FUNDUS CAMERA; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NEAR INFRARED AUTOFLUORESCENCE; NEAR INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPEN READING FRAME; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT WAVELENGTH AUTOFLUORESCENCE; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STARGARDT DISEASE; YOUNG ADULT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EYE FUNDUS; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GENETICS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84917727920     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-14848     Document Type: Article

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