Specifying and controlling the optical image on the human retina

Progress in Retinal and Eye Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-42

  Westheimer, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR VISION; COLOR VISION DEFECT; HUMAN; LIGHT; OPTICS; PHOTON; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; RETINA; RETINA IMAGE; REVIEW;

HUMANS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RETINA; SCATTERING, RADIATION; VISION;

EID: 27644558281     PISSN: 13509462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2005.05.002     Document Type: Review

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