Low frequency temporal modulation of light promotes a myopic shift in refractive compensation to all spectacle lenses

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 322-328

  Crewther, Sheila G ^a   Barutchu, Ayla ^a   Murphy, Melanie J ^a   Crewther, David P ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

flicker; hyperopia; lens defocus; low temporal frequency luminance modulation; myopia; on and off response

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; EYE REFRACTION; LIGHT; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LUMINANCE; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTACLES;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CONTACT LENSES; EYEGLASSES; LIGHT; MALE; MYOPIA; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REFRACTION, OCULAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33744928391     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2005.12.016     Document Type: Article

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