On the age dependency of the macular pigment optical density

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 602-609

  Berendschot, Tos T J M ^a,b   Van Norren, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Autofluorescence; Fundus reflectance; Heterochromatic flicker photometry; Macular pigment; Scanning laser ophthalmoscope

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FUNDUS REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HETEROCHROMATIC FLICKERPHOTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; RISK FACTOR; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; LASERS; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHOTOMETRY; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 27444431569     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2005.03.019     Document Type: Article

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