Modifying a Rodenstock scanning laser ophthalmoscope for imaging densitometry

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 5621-5629

  Tornow, Ralf Peter ^a   Beuel, Stefan ^a   Zrenner, Eberhart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human photopigments; Retinal densitometry; Scanning laser ophthalmoscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013413703     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.005621     Document Type: Article

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