Visual acuity and contrast sensitivity for individual Sloan letters

Vision Research

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 813-819

  Alexander, Kenneth R ^a   Xie, Wei ^a   Derlacki, Deborah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity; CSF; Fovea; Letters; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION TESTS; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0031044441     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(96)00190-3     Document Type: Article

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