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Contrast Sensitivity

 
 
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Disease relevance of Contrast Sensitivity

 

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  • These changes of contrast sensitivity function following treatment suggest that dopamine is a functional transmitter in the visual pathways [1].
  • CONCLUSIONS: In eyes with larger photopic pupil diameter, increases in spherical-like aberration dominantly affect contrast sensitivity, whereas in eyes with smaller pupil size, changes in coma-like aberration exert greater influence on visual performance [9].
  • PURPOSE: To determine whether asymptomatic 11778 LHON carriers demonstrated impairments in (1) chromatic red/green (R/G) and blue/yellow (B/Y) contrast sensitivity functions (CSF) and in (2) luminance contrast sensitivity functions in the spatial CSF (SCSF) and temporal CSF (TCSF) domains [10].
  • These VEP results are in general agreement with recent psychophysical studies of contrast sensitivity losses in patients with RP, and further they characterize contrast processing deficits in these patients at suprathreshold levels [11].
  • RESULTS: Five of the patients with RP who had Snellen visual acuities better than 20/25 had contrast sensitivity functions that were within the normal limits at all spatial frequencies for both testing paradigms [12].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of Contrast Sensitivity

 

Biological context of Contrast Sensitivity

 

Anatomical context of Contrast Sensitivity

  • Also following betaxolol treatment, contrast sensitivity improved significantly (p = .006), and a significant positive correlation was shown between change in contrast sensitivity and change in resistance index (r = .70; p = .015) of the ciliary arteries [22].
  • CONCLUSION: In virgin PCOS patients, when compared to transabdominal CBU, PIHI significantly improved the detection of ovarian follicles, especially in high BMI obese subjects, through increased contrast sensitivity for cystic structures and decreased intrafollicular artifactual echoes [23].
  • The ocular blood flow was measured by means of the ocular blood flow system, the optic nerve head blood flow with the continuous laser Doppler flowmeter (Riva), and contrast sensitivity using the MCT 8000 Multivision Contrast Tester [24].
 

Associations of Contrast Sensitivity with chemical compounds

  • We studied contrast sensitivity function in 10 parkinsonian patients before and after levodopa treatment [1].
  • These data also suggest that dynamic dioptric factors contribute to the magnitude of contrast sensitivity deficits in this patient population and indicate that the relationship between the individual tonus accommodation position and viewing distance is an important variable in CS testing [25].
  • Measurements of contrast sensitivity at four spatial frequencies (3, 6, 12, and 18 cycles/degree [c/deg]), macular capillary blood velocity (CBV), capillary density (PIA: perifoveal intercapillary area), foveal avascular zone (FAZ), and microaneurysm count were performed [26].
  • It is suggested that this effect is not caused by ethanol-induced changes in oculomotor mechanisms but may be caused by ethanol-induced decreases in contrast sensitivity [27].
  • We studied retinal contrast sensitivity, visual evoked EEG responses, and melatonin suppression by, and cerebral blood flow response to, full-spectrum artificial daylight [28].
 

Gene context of Contrast Sensitivity

  • In contrast sensitivity of the vg larvae to FUdR is observed [29].
  • The greater the amount of achieved myopia correction was, the more the changes in contrast sensitivity function and ocular higher-order aberrations were [30].
  • This method was based on a comparison of the measured change in contrast sensitivity (delta log (CSF)) of the eye and the calculated change in modulation transfer function of the cornea with undilated and dilated pupils [31].
  • Contrast sensitivity loss caused by forward scatter was assessed with a glare tester (Vistech MCT 8000) [32].
  • 2. Spatial contrast sensitivity was uniformly reduced compared with that of the normal trichromatic observer [33].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Contrast Sensitivity

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