Characterization of choroidal layers in normal aging eyes using enface swept-source optical coherence tomography

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Adhi, Mehreen ^a,b   Ferrara, Daniela ^a   Mullins, Robert F ^c   Baumal, Caroline R ^a   Mohler, Kathrin J ^b,d   Kraus, Martin F ^b,e   Liu, Jonathan ^b   Badaro, Emmerson ^a   Alasil, Tarek ^a   Hornegger, Joachim ^e   Fujimoto, James G ^b   Duker, Jay S ^a   Waheed, Nadia K ^a   Ablonczy, Zsolt ^f  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALGORITHM; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; CHOROID; CHOROID CAPILLARY LAYER; CHOROID VASCULARIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENFACE SWEPT-SOURCE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA FOVEA; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VENULE; VOLUMETRY; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; SCLERA; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CHOROID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; SCLERA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940523125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133080     Document Type: Article

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