Retinal image quality in the rodent eye

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 597-605

  Artal, Pablo ^a   De Tejada, Pilar Herreros ^b   Tedó, Carmen Muñoz ^b   Green, Daniel G ^c  

^a LABORATORIO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ocular modulation transfer function; Retinal image quality; Rodent eyes

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; RETINA; VISION;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RATS; RETINA; VISION;

EID: 0032127654     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523898154020     Document Type: Article

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