Macular pigment and ocular biometry

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 2149-2156

  Neelam, Kumari ^a,b,c   Nolan, John ^a   Loane, Edward ^a,b   Stack, Jim ^a   O'Donovan, Orla ^a   Au Eong, Kah Guan ^c   Beatty, Stephen ^a,b  

^a Ireland   (Ireland)

^b WATERFORD REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Anterior chamber depth; Axial length; Lens thickness; Macular pigment; Vitreous chamber depth

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN;

ADULT; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EYE DOMINANCE; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LENS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

ADULT; AGING; BIOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; EYE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LUTEIN; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 33644827873     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.12.012     Document Type: Article

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