Evaluation of a new quantitative technique to assess the number and extent of preferred retinal loci in macular disease

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1537-1546

  Crossland, M D ^a   Sims, M ^b   Galbraith, R F ^b   Rubin, G S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fixation; Human; Macular disease; Retina

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SCOTOMA; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETINA; VISION TESTS;

EID: 2342473792     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.01.006     Document Type: Article

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