Assessing Critical Flicker Fusion Frequency: Which Confounders? A Narrative Review
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Confounding Factors
2.1. Participants
2.2. Smoking/Drugs
2.3. Optical Factors
2.4. Environment
2.5. Breathing Gases
3. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Muth, T.; Schipke, J.D.; Brebeck, A.-K.; Dreyer, S. Assessing Critical Flicker Fusion Frequency: Which Confounders? A Narrative Review. Medicina 2023, 59, 800. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina59040800
Muth T, Schipke JD, Brebeck A-K, Dreyer S. Assessing Critical Flicker Fusion Frequency: Which Confounders? A Narrative Review. Medicina. 2023; 59(4):800. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina59040800
Chicago/Turabian StyleMuth, Thomas, Jochen D. Schipke, Anne-Kathrin Brebeck, and Sven Dreyer. 2023. "Assessing Critical Flicker Fusion Frequency: Which Confounders? A Narrative Review" Medicina 59, no. 4: 800. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina59040800