Abstract
The retinal vascular tree exhibits fractal characteristics. These findings relate to the mechanisms involved in the vascularization process and to the objective morphologic characterization of retinal vessels using fractal analysis. Although normal retinas show uniform patterns of blood vessels, in pathologic retinas with central vein or artery occlusions, the patterns are irregular. Because the generalized box fractal dimension fails to differentiate successfully between normal and abnormal retinal vessels in 60 degrees fluorescein angiograms, the authors have further investigated this problem using the local connected fractal dimension (alpha).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2749-55 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS) |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 13 |
| Publication status | Published - 1995 |