Electroretinogram flicker photometry and its applications

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 641-648

  Jacobs, Gerald H ^a   Neitz, Jay ^b   Krogh, Kris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA ROD; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOMETRY; RODS (RETINA); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030094823     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.13.000641     Document Type: Article

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