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Retinal distributions of the macular pigment and the cone effective optical density from colour matches of real observers
Author(s) -
Viénot Françoise
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
color research and application
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.393
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1520-6378
pISSN - 0361-2317
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6378(2001)26:1+<::aid-col57>3.0.co;2-3
Subject(s) - optical density , retinal , cone (formal languages) , optics , optometry , ophthalmology , physics , computer science , medicine , algorithm
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 Viénot (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. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Col Res Appl, 26, S264–S268, 2001