Measurement of macular pigment optical density using two different heterochromatic flicker photometers

Current Eye Research

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 555-564

  Loane, Edward ^a   Stack, Jim ^a   Beatty, Stephen ^a,b   Nolan, John M ^a  

^a Ireland   (Ireland)

^b WATERFORD REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Age related maculopathy; Critical flicker frequency; Heterochromatic flicker photometry; Macular pigment; Retinal eccentricity

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PHOTOMETER; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA LUTEA;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; LUTEIN; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOMETRY; RETINAL PIGMENTS; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 34447115119     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02713680701418405     Document Type: Article

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