Blink frequency and duration during perimetry and their relationship to test-retest threshold variability

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4546-4550

  Wang, Yanfang ^a   Toor, Sonia S ^b   Gautam, Ramesh ^a   Henson, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYE TRACKING; EYELID CLOSURE; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; BLINKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLINKING; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL FIELD TESTS; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052382513     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6553     Document Type: Article

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