Quantitative noninvasive angiography of the fovea centralis using speckle variance optical coherence tomography

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 5074-5086

  Mammo, Zaid ^a   Balaratnasingam, Chandrakumar ^a,b,c,d   Yu, Paula ^b   Xu, Jing ^e   Heisler, Morgan ^e   Mackenzie, Paul ^a   Merkur, Andrew ^a   Kirker, Andrew ^a   Albiani, David ^a   Bailey Freund, K ^c,d   Sarunic, Marinko V ^e   Yu, Dao Yi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c VITREOUS RETINA MACULA CONSULTANTS OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d EAR AND THROAT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fluorescein angiography; Histology; Macula; svOCT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CYTOLOGY; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA FOVEA; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL VESSELS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84939800377     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.15-16773     Document Type: Article

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