Phosphenes electrically evoked with DTL electrodes: A study in patients with retinitis pigmentosa, glaucoma, and homonymous visual field loss and normal subjects

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4966-4974

  Gekeler, Florian ^a,b   Messias, Andre ^a   Ottinger, Max ^a   Bartz Schmidt, Karl Ulrich ^a   Zrenner, Eberhart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Centre for Ophthalmology   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONAXY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DARK ADAPTATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DTL ELECTRODE; ELECTRODE; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; LIGHT; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; RELIABILITY; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RHEOBASE; SAFETY; SCREENING TEST; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; ADULT; AGED; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEMIANOPIA; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTRODE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; DARK ADAPTATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HEMIANOPSIA; HUMANS; MICROELECTRODES; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHENES; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34247168519     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0459     Document Type: Article

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