Fixation in patients with juvenile macular disease

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 852-858

  Macedo, António Filipe ^a,c   Nascimento, Sérgio Miguel Cardoso ^a   Gomes, Augusto Oliveira Silva ^b   Puga, André Teixeira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eccentric fixation; Eye movements; Fixation stability; Preferred retinal locus

Indexed keywords

EYE MOVEMENTS; OPTOMETERS; PATIENT MONITORING;

BIVARIATE CONTOUR ELLIPSE AREA (BCEA); FIXATION STABILITY; MACULAR DISEASE (MD); PREFERRED RETINAL LOCI (PRL); STATIC PERIMETRY;

DISEASES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULOPATHY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RETINAL DISEASES; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 34548683679     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e3181559beb     Document Type: Article

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