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Walter M. Paulus, MD
Essen, West Germany

Arch Ophthalmol. 1984;102(4):508.

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To the Editor.

—We read with great interest the article by Mindel et al¹ in the June ARCHIVES entitled "Visual Field Testing with Red Targets."

The authors stated that visual field defects demonstrated with an isopter for chromatic recognition of a 3-mm red stimulus could always be reproduced with an isopter for achromatic recognition of a dim, 3-mm white stimulus. Although we believe these data to be basically correct, in our opinion the authors miss a basic advantage of color as compared with black and white perimetry. The authors cite data on retinal ganglion cells^2-4 with the conclusion that "different retinal ganglion cells receive and convey information from different portions of the spectrum. A lesion could selectively impair those ganglion cell axons responsible for the perception of a given color."

This physiological interpretation, however, does not fit current theoretical considerations of retinal information transmission. According to Boynton,⁵ . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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