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Sveinn Hákon Harðarson - Associate Professor
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School of Health Sciences
Sveinn Hákon Harðarson
Íslenska
Associate Professor
Assistant professor (lektor) in physiology. Emphasis on ocular physiology.
Location
Læknagarður / Lg-538
Phone
8490347
8490347
Email
sveinnha [at] hi.is
Unit
Department of Physiology
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5865-6756
Research portal – Sveinn Hákon Harðarson
Courses 2024 - 2025
LÆK213G - Physiology II ON
LÆK406F - Ophthalmology
LEI206G - Physiology 2
LÆK212G - Physiology I ON
LÆK306F - Ophthalmology
LÆK117G - Biological Physics
LEI108G - Physiology 1
LÆK106F - General research methods, course for M.Sc. and Ph.D. students - Part 1
LÆK0AMF - General research methods, course for M.Sc. and Ph.D. students - Part 3
Published works
2023
Evaluation of a retinal oximetry image quality indicator in patients with cataract
Acta Ophthalmologica
2022
Artery vein classification in fundus images using serially connected U-Nets
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine
2021
Retinal oximetry with a prototype handheld oximeter during hyperoxia
Acta Ophthalmologica
Retinal oximetry does not predict 12-month visual outcome after anti-VEGF treatment for central retinal vein occlusion: A multicentre study
Acta Ophthalmologica
Retinal oxygen saturation changes progressively over time in diabetic retinopathy
PLoS ONE
Automation improves repeatability of retinal oximetry measurements
PLoS ONE
Automatic fundus image quality assessment on a continuous scale
Computers in Biology and Medicine
2020
Sjónsviðsskerðing við fyrstu hjáveituaðgerð (trabeculectomiu) vegna gláku
Læknablaðið
Retinal oximetry in central nervous system diseases
2019
Retinal vessel oxygen saturation is affected in uveitis associated with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease
British Journal of Ophthalmology
Retinal oxygen saturation is an independent risk factor for the severity of diabetic retinopathy
British Journal of Ophthalmology
Retinal oximetry
Progress in Retinal and Eye Research
2018
Laws of physics help explain capillary non-perfusion in diabetic retinopathy
Eye (Basingstoke)
Retinal oxygen metabolism in patients with mild cognitive impairment
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring
Handheld retinal oximetry in healthy young adults
Translational Vision Science and Technology
Retinal oximetry is affected in multiple sclerosis
Acta Ophthalmologica
2017
Retinal oximetry measures systemic hypoxia in central nervous system vessels in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
PLoS ONE
Retinal Oximetry Discovers Novel Biomarkers in Retinal and Brain Diseases
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science
Fundus imaging in newborn children with wide-field scanning laser ophthalmoscope
Acta Ophthalmologica
2015
Is metabolic imaging a new tool to monitor progression in retinal degenerations and atrophy?
Acta Ophthalmologica
Venous oxygen saturation is reduced and variable in central retinal vein occlusion
Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
Response to the letter to the editor
Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
Venous oxygen saturation is reduced and variable in central retinal vein occlusion
Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
Retinal Oximetry Imaging in Alzheimer's Disease
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
Retinal vessel oxygen saturation during 100% oxygen breathing in healthy individuals
PLoS ONE
2014
γ-cyclodextrin nanoparticle eye drops with dorzolamide
Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Retinal oxygen metabolism in exudative age-related macular degeneration
Acta Ophthalmologica
The oxygen saturation in retinal vessels from diabetic patients depends on the severity and type of vision-threatening retinopathy
Acta Ophthalmologica
Retinal oximetry with a scanning laser ophthalmoscope
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Letter to the editor
Optometry and Vision Science
Retinal vessel oxygen saturation and vessel diameter in retinitis pigmentosa
Acta Ophthalmologica
2013
Retinal oximetry
Acta Ophthalmologica
Spectrophotometric retinal oximetry in pigs
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Retinal oximetry in central retinal artery occlusion
Acta Ophthalmologica
Choroidal oximetry with a noninvasive spectrophotometric oximeter
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Retinal oximetry
Acta Ophthalmologica
2012
Oxygen saturation in branch retinal vein occlusion
Acta Ophthalmologica
Retinal vessel oxygen saturation in healthy individuals
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Retinal oximetry images must be standardized
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Retinal oxygen saturation is altered in diabetic retinopathy
British Journal of Ophthalmology
2011
Retinal oximetry in primary open-angle glaucoma
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Reliability of vessel diameter measurements with a retinal oximeter
Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
2010
Oxygen saturation in central retinal vein occlusion
American Journal of Ophthalmology
2009
Oxygen saturation in human retinal vessels is higher in dark than in light
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Glaucoma filtration surgery and retinal oxygen saturation
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Dorzolamide-timolol combination and retinal vessel oxygen saturation in patients with glaucoma or ocular hypertension
British Journal of Ophthalmology
2008
Metabolic evaluation of the retina
Regulation of retinal blood flow in health and disease
Progress in Retinal and Eye Research
2006
Automatic Evaluation of Fundus Image Quality
Unsupervised change-detection in color fundus images of the human retina
Ocular powder
Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Automatic retinal oximetry
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science
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