How spatial orientation of Japanese text affects fixation points in patients with bilateral macular atrophy

Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 462-468

  Matsumoto, Yoko ^a   Yuzawa, Mitsuko ^a   Oda, Koichi ^b  

^a SURUGADAI NIHON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilateral macular atrophy; Fixation point; Microperimetry; Reading acuity; Scanning laser ophthalmoscope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; READING; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; SCOTOMA; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PERIMETRY; READING; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 29244445062     PISSN: 00215155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10384-005-0242-8     Document Type: Article

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