Understanding Fluorescein Angiography

• Main Author: Spitznas, Manfred (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Science.; Radiology.; Ophthalmology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Science, general.; Imaging / Radiology.

Fluorescein angiography is an indispensable tool in modern ophthalmology. It is founded on the evaluation of phenomena related to the behavior intravenously administered sodium fluorescein in the tissues of the ocular fundus. Commonly, texts on fluorescein angiography merely describe the typical pat...

Table of Contents:

• Basic Facts. Optical Phenomena
• Transparency of Neurosensory Retina
• Transparency of Retinal Pigment Epithelium
• Transparency of Bruch’s Membrane
• Mechanical Phenomena: Attachment of Retinal Pigment Epithelium
• Dynamic Phenomena: Morphologic and Physiologic Basis
• Permeability of Retinal Vessels
• Permeability of Choroidal Vessels
• Permeability of Retinal Pigment Epithelium.