US 7,494,222 B2
Method and apparatus for the detection of impaired dark adaptation
Gregory R. Jackson, Alabasta, Ala. (US); and Cynthia Owsley, Birmingham, Ala. (US)
Assigned to The UAB Research Foundation, Birmingham, Ala. (US)
Appl. No. 10/571,230
PCT Filed Sep. 03, 2004, PCT No. PCT/US2004/029003
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Dec. 27, 2006,
PCT Pub. No. WO2005/023094, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 17, 2005.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/500163, filed on Sep. 04, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2007/0121071 A1, May 31, 2007
Int. Cl. A61B 3/00 (2006.01); A61B 3/02 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 351—246  [351/224] 87 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for psychophysical measurement of dark adaptation in a subject, said method comprising the steps of:
a. providing said subject;
b. bleaching a test eye of said subject;
c. presenting a target stimulus to said test eye of said subject;
d. determining a response of said subject to said target stimulus by obtaining at least one threshold measurement; and
e. subjecting said at least one threshold measurement to a noise reduction protocol.