The course of maturation of rod-mediated visual thresholds in infants

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1883-1886

  Hansen, Ronald M ^a   Fulton, Anne B ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; HUMAN; INFANT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA ROD; RETINA ROD OUTER SEGMENT; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; DARK ADAPTATION; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; RODS (RETINA); SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0033031352     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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