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COURBE SENSIBILITE SPECTRALE [2 records]

Record 1 2011-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
  • Visual Disorders
DEF

A graph of sensitivity as a function of spectral wavelength or, less frequently, of spectral wave number or frequency.

OBS

Often synonymous with luminosity curve, but usually restricted to threshold measurements rather than suprathreshold matches.

Key term(s)
  • luminosity curve

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
  • Troubles de la vision
OBS

Concordance entre la sensibilité spectrale de la rhodopsine et la courbe d'efficacité lumineuse scotopique.

Spanish

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Record 2 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electric Currents

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courants (Électrocinétique)

Spanish

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