L/m cone ratios in human trichromats assessed by psychophysics, electroretinography, and retinal densitometry

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 517-526

  Kremers, Jan ^a   Scholl, Hendrik P N ^a   Knau, Holger ^a   Berendschot, Tos T J M ^b   Usui, Tomoaki ^a,c   Sharpe, Lindsay T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR VISION; DENSITOMETERS; DENSITY (OPTICAL); ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; PHOTOMETRY;

ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY (ERG);

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; DENSITOMETRY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; RETINA CONE;

COLOR PERCEPTION; CONES (RETINA); DENSITOMETRY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0034145454     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.17.000517     Document Type: Article

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