Correlating photoreceptor mosaic structure to clinical findings in stargardt disease

Translational Vision Science and Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Razeen, Moataz M ^a,b   Cooper, F ^c   Langlo, Christopher S ^a   Goldberg, Mara R ^a   Wilk, Melissa A ^a   Han, Dennis P ^a   Connor, Thomas B ^a   Fishman, Gerald A ^d,e   Collison, Frederick T ^d   Sulai, Yusufu N ^a   Dubra, Alfredo ^a,c   Carroll, Joseph ^a,c   Stepien, Kimberly E ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c Marquette University   (United States)

^d Pangere Center for Hereditary Retinal Diseases   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging image analysis; Photoreceptors; Retina; Stargardt disease

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS SCANNING LIGHT OPHTHALMOSCOPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA ISOLATION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; MICROPERIMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERIMETRY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHOTORECEPTOR OUTER SEGMENT; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA ROD; STARGARDT DISEASE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85005952066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21642591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/tvst.5.2.6     Document Type: Article

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