A new Arabic distance visual acuity chart

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-61

  Al Mufarrej, Mansour Mohammed ^a,b   Abo Hiemed, Fawzia Abdullah ^a   Oduntan, Alabi Olalekan ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NONE   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

acuity chart; Arabic optotypes; LogMAR; relative legibility; row legibility; visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; WRITING;

ARABS; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0030070121     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-199601000-00010     Document Type: Article

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