The arrangement of the three cone classes in the living human eye

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6719, 1999, Pages 520-522

  Roorda, Austin ^a,b   Williams, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; DENSITOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA IMAGE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CELL COUNT; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); DENSITOMETRY; EYE; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICS;

EID: 0033545288     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/17383     Document Type: Article

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