Optical measurement of human retinal macular pigment and its spatial distribution with age

Medical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2621-2628

  Chang, Yin ^a   Lee, Feng Lih ^b   Chen, Shih Jen ^b   Chen, Sheng Fu ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Age; Imaging fundus reflectometry; Macular pigment; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDES; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS;

AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; HORIZONTAL MERIDIANS; MACULAR PIGMENTS; NONINVASIVE TECHNIQUE; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; REFLECTOMETRY; YELLOW PIGMENTS;

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; IMAGING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLECTOMETRY; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; AGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPE; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY; STATISTICS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 1842832534     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1515761     Document Type: Article

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