Evaluating retinal function in age-related maculopathy with the ERG Photostress Test

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2806-2813

  Binns, Alison M ^a   Margrain, Tom H ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALPHA RHYTHM; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; B WAVE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINETICS; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETINA; RETINA CONE; RETINA MACULOPATHY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STEADY STATE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VISUAL ADAPTATION; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; AGED; CONES (RETINA); ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34347213779     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0392     Document Type: Article

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