Macular pigment optical density and photophobia light threshold

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 28, 2006, Pages 4615-4622

  Wenzel, Adam J ^a   Fuld, Kenneth ^a   Stringham, James M ^b   Curran Celentano, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Lutein; Macular pigment; Photophobia; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT; XANTHOPHYLL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LINEAR SYSTEM; MALE; OPTICAL DENSITY; PHOTOPHOBIA; PHOTOREACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VISION; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL THRESHOLD; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; CAROTENOIDS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; LIGHT; LUTEIN; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; PHOTOPHOBIA; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 33751001597     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.09.019     Document Type: Article

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