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INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE
卷 45, 期 2, 页码 531-538出版社
ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-0762
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- NEI NIH HHS [EY13018] Funding Source: Medline
PURPOSE. To develop a standardized protocol for measuring macular pigment optical density (MPOD) of experimentally naive subjects by heterochromatic flicker photometry (HFP). METHODS. MPOD in eyes of 54 women, age 50 and 79 years (mean, 66), was studied. The spatial profile of MPOD was measured in the right eye, and two spatial points were also measured in the left eye. Forty-eight of these inexperienced subjects completed the protocol on two separate visits. For a subset of the group, the MPOD at two different wavelengths was measured. RESULTS. The test-retest correlation at 0.5degrees eccentricity in the right eye was 0.9. On the second visit, more than 90% of the subjects were able to perform the HFP test with results that were consistent with the absorption spectrum of macular pigment. On the first visit, data from the inexperienced subjects deviated more from the expected relationships between the two wavelengths, presumably because they had less skill in performing the task. However, subjects with high or low macular pigment density were distinguished clearly. CONCLUSIONS. Reliable and meaningful measurements of macular pigment density in older subjects can be made using HFP, with a standardized protocol in the limited time available in large epidemiologic studies. This protocol will be made freely available to other researchers on request.
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