title: Use of the retinal vessel analyzer in ocular blood flow research.
abstract: The present article describes a standard instrument for the continuous online determination of retinal vessel diameters, the commercially available retinal vessel analyzer. This report is intended to provide informed guidelines for measuring ocular blood flow with this system. The report describes the principles underlying the method and the instruments currently available, and discusses clinical protocol and the specific parameters measured by the system. Unresolved questions and the possible limitations of the technique are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria. gerhard.garhoefer@meduniwien.ac.at
authors.forename: Gerhard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Garhofer
authors.forename: Toke
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bek
authors.forename: Andreas G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Boehm
authors.forename: Doina
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gherghel
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Grunwald
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jeppesen
authors.forename: Hélène
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kergoat
authors.forename: Konstantin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kotliar
authors.forename: Ines
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Lanzl
authors.forename: John V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Lovasik
authors.forename: Edgar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nagel
authors.forename: Walthard
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Vilser
authors.forename: Selim
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Orgul
authors.forename: Leopold
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schmetterer
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D002138:Calibration; D004867:Equipment Design; D005123:Eye / Q000098:blood supply*; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D006801:Humans; D018496:Hyperoxia / Q000503:physiopathology; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D012039:Regional Blood Flow; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012171:Retinal Vessels / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000473:pathology / Q000502:physiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D012212:Rheology / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*