Spontaneous fluctuations in pupil size are not triggered by lens accommodation

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 567-573

  Hunter, J D ^a   Milton, J G ^a   Ludtke H ^b   Wilhelm, B ^b   Wilhelm, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Correlation; Pupil; Size

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ARTICLE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; LENS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL;

EID: 0033959346     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00200-X     Document Type: Article

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