Repeated measures of macular pigment optical density to test reproducibility of heterochromatic flicker photometry

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 207-211

  Hagen, Stefan ^a   Krebs, Ilse ^a,b   Glittenberg, Carl ^a,b   Binder, Susanne ^a,b  

^a LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coefficient of variation; Heterochromatic flicker photometry; Macular pigment optical density; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT; XANTHOPHYLL; ZEAXANTHIN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HETEROCHROMATIC FLICKER PHOTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MACULAR PIGMENT OPTICAL DENSITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; PHOTOMETER; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUTEIN; MALE; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; RETINAL PIGMENTS; XANTHOPHYLLS;

EID: 77649222133     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2008.01418.x     Document Type: Article

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