Technical factors influencing cone packing density estimates in adaptive optics flood illuminated retinal images

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Lombardo, Marco ^a   Serrao, Sebastiano ^a   Lombardo, Giuseppe ^b,c  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE BIETTI   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Vision Engineering Italy Srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; EMMETROPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA CONE; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA IMAGE; VISUAL ADAPTATION; YOUNG ADULT; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETINA; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; RETINA; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922594027     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107402     Document Type: Article

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