Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prog Retin Eye Res. 2016 Jan;50:108–144. doi: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2015.10.001

Fig. 45.

Fig. 45

Grain counts per unit area in different regions of the normal optic nerve head. Grain counts have been corrected for glia and myelin correction factor. Grain counts for each curve taken from autoradiograph preparation of optic nerve head from eyes enucleated six hours and 1, 4, and 12 days after injection of tritiated leucine into vitreous cavity.

Abbreviations: ALR = anterior part of nerve fiber layer; LC = lamina cribrosa; ML = anterior line of retrolaminar myelinated optic nerve; NFL = Nerve fiber layer; ON = optic nerve; PL = prelaminar region; PLR = posterior part of nerve fiber layer

Figs. 46–68: Fundus photographs show three grades of severity of optic disc edema and other fundus changes due to raised intracranial pressure.