Relative legibility and confusions of letter acuity targets in the peripheral and central retina

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 270-275

  Reich, Lewis N ^a   Bedell, Harold E ^b  

^a NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Confusion; Fovea; Legibility; Letters; Periphery; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; PATIENT TREATMENT; VISION;

FOVEA;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFUSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECOGNITION; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0034034442     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-200005000-00014     Document Type: Article

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