Retinal distributions of the macular pigment and the cone effective optical density from colour matches of real observers

✍ Scribed by Françoise Viénot

• Book ID: 101359361
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 100 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0361-2317
• DOI: 10.1002/1520-6378(2001)26:1+<::aid-col57>3.0.co;2-3

✦ Synopsis

Two major factors causing a change in colour matches between large and small fields are macular pigmentation and cone outer-segment lengthening. We have simulated the effect of the macular pigment optical density (o.d.) and of the cone effective o.d. on colour matches and demonstrated that ignoring the change of cone o.d. between the fovea and the periphery leads to over-estimation of the variation of macular pigment o.d. We have examined the colour matches of 4 observers on 30°, 7°, 3°, and 1.2°fields, published by Vie ´not (1983) and modeled the change of macular pigment o.d. and cone o.d. with eccentricity. Neither macular pigment o.d. nor cone o.d. vary much beyond 7°diameter. For the observers, the difference of macular pigment o.d. between 2°and 10°fields is within the range 0.22-0.41 and the difference of cone o.d. between 2°and 10°fields is within the range 0.07-0.12, when the change of cone o.d. is correctly allowed for.