The absorption of polarized light by vertebrate photoreceptors

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 2643-2652

  Roberts, N W ^a   Gleeson, H F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absorbance spectra; Birefringence; Linear dichroism; Microspectrophotometry; Optical modelling; Vertebrate photoreceptors

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GEOMETRY; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROSPECTROPHOTOMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; THEORETICAL STUDY; VISUAL SYSTEM; WAVEFORM;

ABSORPTION; ANIMALS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPTICS; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 4143091683     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.06.001     Document Type: Article

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