The relationship between foveal short-wavelength-sensitive visual function and macular pigment optical density in the ageing age

Vision Research

Volumn 86, Issue , 2013, Pages 81-86

  Beirne, Raymond O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Macular pigment; Short wavelength sensitive; Visual function

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; FOVEAL SHORT WAVELENGTH SENSITIVE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MACULAR PIGMENT OPTICAL DENSITY; MALE; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; SEX DIFFERENCE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL PIGMENTS; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878398975     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2013.04.002     Document Type: Article

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