Compensation for light loss resulting from filtering by macular pigment: Relation to the S-cone pathway

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 887-894

  Stringham, James M ^a   Hammond, Billy R ^a   Wooten, Billy R ^c   Snodderly, D Max ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Flicker photometry; Macular pigment; S cones; Short wavelength sensitivity

Indexed keywords

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SENSORY PERCEPTION; VISION;

FLICKER PHOTOMETRY; MACULAR PIGMENT; S-CONES; SHORT-WAVELENGTH SENSITIVITY;

PIGMENTS;

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FILTRATION; HUMAN; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT ADAPTATION; MALE; OPTIC TRACT; OPTICAL DENSITY; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; ADULT; CONES (RETINA); FEMALE; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; LIGHT; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE;

EID: 33845791449     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.opx.0000249976.00534.2d     Document Type: Article

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