title: Quantification of choroidal blood-flow parameters using indocyanine green video-fluorescence angiography and statistical picture analysis.
abstract: A method for indocyanine green video-fluorescence angiography of the human choroid is described using a 30 degrees fundus camera (C. Zeiss) with external light supply, a low-light-level TV camera, and a video recorder. Bloodflow parameters for the choroid were obtained from the video recording using a picture-analysis system (IBAS, Kontron). These included: the mean time for arterial, capillary and venous filling and a parameter corresponding to the amount of perfused capillaries in the choroid. Angiograms were performed on normal, healthy subjects at normal and increased intraocular pressures and on patients with dry senile macular degeneration. Examples of the results are shown and discussed.
authors.affiliation: Universitäts-Augenklinik, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Prünte
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Niesel
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002829:Choroid / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007208:Indocyanine Green; D007429:Intraocular Pressure; D008268:Macular Degeneration / Q000473:pathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D012039:Regional Blood Flow; D014743:Videotape Recording
chemical_list: D007208:Indocyanine Green