Imaging foveal microvasculature: Optical coherence tomography angiography versus adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscope fluorescein angiography

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2016, Pages OCT130-OCT140

  Mo, Shelley ^a,b   Krawitz, Brian ^a,b   Efstathiadis, Eleni ^b,c   Geyman, Lawrence ^a,b   Weitz, Rishard ^b   Chui, Toco Y P ^a,b   Carroll, Joseph ^d   Dubra, Alfredo ^d   Rosen, Richard B ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c Department of Chemistry Macaulay Honors College   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Angiography; Fluorescein angiography; Optical coherence tomography; Retinal vasculature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOVEAL AVASCULAR ZONE AREA; FOVEAL AVASCULAR ZONE PERIMETER; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUMEN DIAMETER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; VESSEL DENSITY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; CAPILLARY; DEVICES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE FUNDUS; MICROCIRCULATION; OPHTHALMOSCOPE; OPTICS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA FOVEA; RETINAL DISEASES; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAPILLARIES; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL VESSELS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84978505401     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.15-18932     Document Type: Article

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