Bo Wang1,
Shaodan Zhang2, 3, Y Xie2, Ningli Wang2,
Chun Zhang3, Xiaohong Joe Zhou4, Yan Zhuo1
1State
Key Lab of Brain & Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese
Academy of China, Beijing, China; 2Beijing Tongren Hospital
affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing, China; 3Peking
University Third Hospital, Beijing, China; 4University of Illinois
Medical Center at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Differences were observed in blood flow, morphology and metabolites in the visual cortex between POAG (patients with primary open angle glaucoma) patients and age-matched normal controls, suggesting that rCBF and/or VBM may be used as a specific and sensitive marker in assessing brain injury in glaucoma patients.