Label-free density measurements of radial peripapillary capillaries in the human retina

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Yu, Paula K ^a,b   Balaratnasingam, Chandrakumar ^a,b,d   Xu, Jing ^c   Morgan, William H ^a,b   Mammo, Zaid ^d   Han, Sherry ^c   Mackenzie, Paul ^c,d   Merkur, Andrew ^d   Kirker, Andrew ^d   Albiani, David ^d   Sarunic, Marinko V ^c   Yu, Dao Yi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CHEMICAL LABELING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER MICROSCOPE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY DEVICE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIAL PERIPAPILLARY CAPILLARY; RETINA; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA CAPILLARY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; SPECKLE VARIANCE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; AXON; CAPILLARY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CYTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AXONS; CAPILLARIES; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OPTICAL IMAGING; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL VESSELS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84942134068     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135151     Document Type: Article

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