Documenta Ophthalmologica

, Volume 84, Issue 1, pp 1–17 | Cite as

Colored focal visual evoked potentials by cathode ray tube versus scanning laser ophthalmosope

  • F. Rigaudière
  • J. -F. Le Gargasson
  • J. -E. Guez
  • Y Grall
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Abstract

We compared the focal visual evoked potentials obtained in 52 young subjects with normal vision, evoked by means of three alternating black/color checkerboards generated by a trichromic cathode ray tube (dominant wavelength, 514 nm; colorimetric purity, 0.45) and by means of a scanning laser ophthalmoscope (argon laser beam, 514 nm; colorimetric purity, ≈ 1). These three checkerboards, with an area of 3.5° × 3.5° (stimulating the fovea), then with an area of 3.5° × 3.5° with a central exclusion of 1.5° × 1.5° (stimulating the perifoveola) and finally with an area of 1.5° × 1.5° (stimulating the foveola) were presented within a field (8° × 8°) of homogeneous luminance of 170 cd/m2 and 1500 cd/m2, respectively. Their check sizes were 30′, with a reversal temporal frequency of 0.75 Hz. The transient focal visual evoked potentials recorded with these three stimuli generated by the two types of stimulators were clearly detected for at least 85% of subjects. Their characteristics (waveform, amplitude and culmination times of the different waves) were comparable, regardless of the stimulator used (cathode ray tube or scanning laser ophthalmoscope). These results suggest that, under these various conditions of luminance and colorimetric purity, the neurophysiologic circuits tested function in identical ways. The focal visual evoked potential signs, now clearly defined by means of stimuli generated by cathode ray tubes, therefore apparently can be applied to the focal visual evoked potential evoked by stimuli generated by the scanning laser ophthalmoscope.

Key words

Alternating black/color checkerboards Focal visual evoked potential Scanning laser ophthalmoscope Transient visual evoked potential 

Abbreviations

FVEP

focal visual evoked potential

SLO

scanning laser ophthalmoscope

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Authors and Affiliations

  • F. Rigaudière
    • 1
  • J. -F. Le Gargasson
    • 1
  • J. -E. Guez
    • 1
  • Y Grall
    • 1
  1. 1.Service Central de Biophysique, Département VisionUniversité Paris 7ParisFrance

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