Test-Retest Reliability of Swept Visual Evoked Potential Measurements of Infant Visual Acuity and Contrast Sensitivity

Pediatric Research

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 701-708

  Lauritzen, Lotte ^a   Jørgensen, Marianne Hørby ^a   Michaelsen, Kim Fleischer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRAIN; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RETINA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; INFANT; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 1642570343     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/01.PDR.0000113769.44799.02     Document Type: Article

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