Assessing macular pigment from SLO images

Documenta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 197-202

  Seth, Rajeev ^a   Gouras, Peter ^a  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Macular pigment; Melanin; Scanning laser ophthalmoscope

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL DENSITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PIGMENTATION; REFLECTOMETRY; RELATIVE DENSITY; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA IMAGE; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

ADULT; BETA CAROTENE; HUMANS; LUTEIN; MACULA LUTEA; MELANINS; OPHTHALMOSCOPES; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RETINAL PIGMENTS; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 7244245554     PISSN: 00124486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10633-004-5182-y     Document Type: Article

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