The sensitivity of the chick eye to refractive defocus

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 61-67

  Schmid, Katrina L ^a   Wildsoet, Christine F ^a,b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANISOMETROPIA; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; EYE REFRACTION; LENS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VITREOUS BODY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; EYE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS;

EID: 0031032683     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0275-5408(96)00040-3     Document Type: Article

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