Abstract
Glaucomatous damage to optic nerve fibers may be either localized or diffuse1. Localized losses typically occur outside the macular area as defects of the retinal nerve fibre layer and may prove difficult to detect using standard perimetric techniques2. Recently we report that a nerve fibre bundle defect could be detected better using equiluminous color perimetry than the usual achromatic (white) target3. This raises the possibility that color perimetry may be more sensitive in finding glaucomatous damage than the present achromatic methods, as has been reported for two cases of maculopathy4. In this paper we considered this possibility by performing static meridional (sectional) perimetry on two glaucomatous patients using white and equiluminous red and blue targets.
© 1988 Optical Society of America
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