title: [Quantifying retinal capillary circulation using the scanning laser ophthalmoscope].
abstract: The quantitative picture analysis of video fluorescein angiograms allows one to evaluate retinal hemodynamics. However, this method does not permit us to quantify the retinal capillary perfusion. Now, for the first time, we are able to quantify capillary bloodflow directly and objectively by means of scanning laser ophthalmoscopy. Even the measurement of the bloodflow velocity in all capillaries is now possible. Using digital frame-to-frame picture analysis of digital recordings, bloodflow velocities can be measured on the basis of the movement of dye boluses.
authors.affiliation: Augenklinik der Med. Fak. der RWTH Aachen.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wolf
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Toonen
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Arend
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kaupp
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kiesewetter
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Meyer-Ebrecht
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reim
mesh_terms: D001783:Blood Flow Velocity / Q000502:physiology; D002196:Capillaries / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007834:Lasers; D019721:Ophthalmoscopes; D012161:Retinal Artery / Q000502:physiology*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
vernacular_title: Zur Quantifizierung der retinalen Kapillardurchblutung mit Hilfe des Scanning-Laser-Ophthalmoskops.