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. 2019 Nov 5;9:16064. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-52352-w

Table 4.

Characteristics of the three different light conditions.

Dim light 1 h light exposure (at 22:30) Prior light exposure (18:30-21:00)
Illuminance (lx) 5.0 777 1227
CCT [K] 3888 3888 3934
Lucas et al., 2014 “Cyanopic-lx” 2.4 376 608
“Melanopic-lx” 3.8 596 953
“Rhodopic-lx” 4.2 651 1036
“Chloropic-lx” 4.6 708 1122
“Erythropic-lx” 4.9 764 1205
CIE S 026/E:2018a S-cone-opic EDI (lx) 2.5 385 623
M-cone-opic EDI (lx) 4.5 692 1096
L-cone-opic EDI (lx) 5.0 779 1228
Rhodopic EDI (lx) 3.8 590 939
Melanopic EDI (lx) 3.5 540 863

Photopic illuminance (lx), correlated colour temperature (CCT) and the corresponding human retinal photoreceptor weighted “α-opic (equivalent) illuminances” and α-opic equivalent daylight (D65) illuminances (α-opic EDI) calculated according to Lucas et al.61 and CIE S 026/E:201862 respectively.

aeach α-opic EDI value gives the amount of lx of standard daylight D65 (phase of daylight with a CCT of approximately 6500 K) which results in an identical α-opic irradiance (i.e., the effective photobiological radiance with the spectral irradiance spectrally weighted with the α-opic action spectrum) as the test light condition, see international standard CIE S 026/E:201862.