Off-axis optical quality and retinal sampling in the human eye

Vision Research

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1103-1114

  Williams, David R ^a   Artal, Pablo ^b   Navarro, Rafael ^c   Mcmahon, Matthew J ^d   Brainard, David H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b LABORATORIO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aberrations; Aliasing; Blur; Oblique astigmatism; Peripheral vision

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; MEASUREMENT; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; RETINA IMAGE; SAMPLING; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0029997480     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0042-6989(95)00182-4     Document Type: Article

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