Polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography and conventional retinal imaging strategies in assessing foveal integrity in geographic atrophy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 5246-5255

  Sayegh, Ramzi G ^a   Zotter, Stefan ^b   Roberts, Philip K ^a   Kandula, Maciej M ^c   Sacu, Stefan ^a   Kreil, David P ^c   Baumann, Bernhard ^b   Pircher, Michael ^b   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)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

AMD; Fovea; Geographic atrophy; Polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography; Retinal imaging

Indexed keywords

AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNDUS OCULI; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84939864720     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-15114     Document Type: Article

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