Diffuse luminance flicker increases retinal vessel diameter in humans;Le papillotement induit une vasodilatation retinienne chez l'homme

Klinische Monatsblatter fur Augenheilkunde

Volumn 212, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 326-329

  Formaz, Frank ^a   Riva, Charles E ^a,b   Geiser, Martial H ^a,c   Petrig, Benno L ^a  

^a Inst do Recherche en Ophtalmologie   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c Dept Agro alimentaire and Biotech   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Flicker; Neuronal activity; Retinal blood flow; Retinal vessel diameter

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTOMETRY; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0031841177     PISSN: 00232165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1034897     Document Type: Article

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