The locus of fixation and the foveal cone mosaic

Journal of Vision

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 632-939

  Putnam, Nicole M ^a,c   Hofer, Heidi J ^a   Doble, Nathan ^b,d   Chen, Li ^b   Carroll, Joseph ^b   Williams, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d Iris AO Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Cone density; Eye movements; Fixation; Fovea; Physiological optics

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE POSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT ADAPTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOSAICISM; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REGISTRATION; RETINA CELL; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA IMAGE; STANDARDIZATION;

ADULT; CONES (RETINA); EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HEAD; HUMANS; LIGHT; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICS; POSTURE;

EID: 27144464800     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/5.7.3     Document Type: Article

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