Identifying human albinism: A comparison of VEP and fMRI

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 238-249

  Von Dem Hagen, Elisabeth A H ^a   Hoffmann, Michael B ^b   Morland, Antony B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Universitaets augenklinik   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL VISION; ADULT; AGED; ALBINISM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCULAR ALBINISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; ROC CURVE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALBINISM, OCULOCUTANEOUS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; ROC CURVE; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 39549106101     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0458     Document Type: Article

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