Photon detection
Presentation:
Absolute Visual Sensitivity and Single Photon Detection
Readings:
Review
Field GD, Sampath AP, and Rieke F (2005) Retinal processing near absolute threshold: from behavior to mechanism. Annu. Rev. Physiol. 67:491-514.pdf
Photoreceptors
Baylor DA, Lamb TD and Yau KW (1979) Responses of retinal rods to single photons. J. Physiol. 288:613-634.pdf
Baylor DA, Nunn BJ, and Schnapf JL (1984) The photocurrent, noise and spectral sensitivity of rods of the monkey Macaca Fascicularis. J. Physiol. 357:575-607. pdf
Synapse
Field GD and Rieke F (2002) Nonlinear signal transfer from mouse rods to bipolar cells and implications for visual sensitivity. Neuron 34:773-785.pdf
Ganglion cells
Barlow HB, Levick WR and Yoon M (1971) Responses to single quanta of light in retinal ganglion cells of the cat. Vision Res. Supplement 3:87-101 pdf
Behavior
Hecht S, Shlaer S, Pireene MH (1942) Energy, quanta and vision. J. Gen. Physiol. 25:819-40.pdf
Sakitt B (1972) Counting every quantum. J. Physiol. 223:131-150.pdf
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