A new instrument for the quantification of macular pigment density: First results in patients with AMD and healthy subjects

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 666-671

  Wüstemeyer, Henrike ^a   Jahn, Cornelia ^a   Nestler, Andrei ^a   Barth, Thomas ^a   Wolf, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASERS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPES; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENTS;

EID: 0036935441     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-002-0515-6     Document Type: Article

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