Macular pigment density measured by autofluorescence spectrometry: Comparison with reflectometry and heterochromatic flicker photometry

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

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1212-1230

  Delori, François C ^a   Goger, Douglas G ^a   Hammond, Billy R ^b   Snodderly, D Max ^a   Burns, Stephen A ^a  

^a SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; DENSITY (OPTICAL); FLUORESCENCE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

RETINAL PIGMENTS;

PIGMENTS;

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DRUSEN; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; LENS; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICS; PHOTOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPTICS; PHOTOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL DRUSEN; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 0035377610     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.18.001212     Document Type: Article

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