Selective broad-band spatial frequency loss in contrast sensitivity functions: Comparison with a model based on optical transfer functions

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2475-2484

  Bour, Lo J ^a   Apkarian, Patricia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

contrast sensitivity; modulation transfer functions; neural disease; retinal disease; selective loss

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; REFRACTION ERROR; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; THEORY;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PUPIL; RETINAL DISEASES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0029823368     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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