Simple Exponential Functions Describing the Absorbance Bands of Visual Pigment Spectra

Overview

Journal Vision Res

Specialty Ophthalmology

Date 1993 May 1

PMID 8506642

Citations 90

Authors

D G Stavenga

R P Smits

B J Hoenders

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Abstract

Literature data for visual pigment spectra are formally treated by assuming that the spectra consist of a summation of absorbance bands, that the shape of the bands is invariant according to the Mansfield-MacNichol transform and that this shape is described by simple exponential functions. A new template for constructing visual pigment spectra from peak wavelengths is derived.

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