Contrast sensitivity changes due to glaucoma and normal aging: Low-spatial-frequency losses in both magnocellular and parvocellular pathways

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2115-2122

  McKendrick, Allison M ^a   Sampson, Geoff P ^a   Walland, Mark J ^a   Badcock, David R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; GIANT CELL; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; AGING; MIDDLE AGED; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 34250215997     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-1208     Document Type: Article

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