Anna Brouwer

Chapter 3 82 Acknowledgements We would like to thank all patients for participating in the study. The authors were supported by the following foundations: Dr. F.P Fischer Stichting, and Bartiméus Fonds that contributed through UitZicht (the Netherlands). The funding organizations had no role in the design or conduct of this research. They provided unrestricted grants. A.H. Brouwer, N.H. ten Dam, R. Wijnhoven and M.M. van Genderen have no financial disclosures. G.C. de Wit is employed as a medical physicist at Bartiméus, a low vision institute in the Netherlands. Furthermore, he is a sole proprietor, with his company Optical Diagnostics (http:/ www.opticaldiagnostics.com ) he develops and sells ophthalmic software products and does sometimes consulting work. J.H. de Boer was payed by Abbvie for lectures. We thank J. Ossewaarde-van Norel and L. Ho (University Medical Centre Utrecht), for their help in recruiting patients to participate in this research, D. Gültzau, Y. Burgers andM. Ballast (University Medical Centre Utrecht) for their help in recording the ERGs, F. Riemslag and H. Talsma (Bartiméus Diagnostic Centre for complex visual disorders, Zeist) for giving additional electrophysiological advice and S. Risseeuw (University Medical Centre Utrecht) for her statistical advice.