Nonmydriatic fluorescence-based quantitative imaging of human macular pigment distributions

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2373-2387

  Sharifzadeh, Mohsen ^a   Bernstein, Paul S ^b   Gellermann, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CHROMOPHORES; FLUORESCENCE; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICS; PIGMENTS;

LIPOFUSCIN FLUORESCENCE; MACULAR PIGMENT (MP); OPTICAL TECHNIQUE;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

MYDRIATIC AGENT; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY;

HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACULA LUTEA; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MYDRIATICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 33751227489     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.23.002373     Document Type: Article

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