Images of cone photoreceptors in the living human eye

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1067-1079

  Miller, Donald T ^a   Williams, David R ^b   Morris, G Michael ^a   Liang, Junzhong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cones; Fovea; Fundus imaging; Point spread function; Resolution

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMERA; EYE; EYE FUNDUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; IMAGING; LIGHT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA CONE;

EID: 0030009329     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00225-1     Document Type: Article

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