Accommodation and acuity under night-driving illumination levels

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 291-299

  Arumi, P ^a   Chauhan, K ^a   Charman, W N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; EYE REFRACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; LABORATORY; LUMINANCE; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NIGHT VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; HUMANS; LIGHT; REFRACTION, OCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0030814648     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0275-5408(96)00091-9     Document Type: Article

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