Monitoring retinal function in early age-related maculopathy: Visual performance after 1 year

Eye

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1169-1177

  Feigl, B ^a,b   Brown, B ^b   Lovie Kitchin, J ^b   Swann, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cone mediated function; Early age related maculopathy; mfERG; Monitoring; Multifocal electroretinogram; Rod mediated function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MONITORING; RETINA CONE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 31044450610     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6701711     Document Type: Article

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