Clinical imaging of macular pigment optical density and spatial distribution

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 333-340

  Putnam, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

macular pigment optical density; spatial distribution; visual function

Indexed keywords

VISUAL PIGMENT;

CHEMISTRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; METABOLISM; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOMETRY; PROCEDURES; RETINA MACULA LUTEA;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; MACULA LUTEA; MACULAR PIGMENT; PHOTOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 85005915319     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cxo.12500     Document Type: Review

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