Visual fields via the visual pathway /
Fiona Rowe.
- Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 283 pages, [8] pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field of vision and visual pathway -- Methods of visual field assessment -- Programme choice -- Ocular media -- Retina -- Optic nerve -- Optic chiasm -- Optic tract -- Lateral geniculate body -- Optic radiations -- Visual cortex -- Differential diagnosis -- Visual field artefacts and errors of interpretation.
This textbook is a dynamic exploration of the relationship between the visual pathway and visual field impairments. Aimed at the practitioner or student of visual fields, the clinical focus of the book is oriented towards differential diagnosis and will assist the reader in identifying the site of a lesion. The emphasis is on detection and interpretation of visual field defects, rather than the background and psychophysics of visual field assessment. Discussion of the normal visual field is included for comparative purposes. The structure of the book traces the visual pathway anatomically from front to back, and is supplemented by information on methodology and programme choice.