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Optical Coherence Tomography

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Advances of fundus images have resulted in better understanding of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the past.

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Wolf, S. (2013). Optical Coherence Tomography. In: Holz, F., Pauleikhoff, D., Spaide, R., Bird, A. (eds) Age-related Macular Degeneration. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22107-1_10

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