The three point vernier alignment or acuity test (3Pt VA test): An analysis of variance

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 220-234

  Fang, Michelle Shih Ming ^a   Enoch, Jay M ^a   Lakshminarayanan, Vasudevan ^b   Kim, Eunice ^a   Kono, Momoyo ^a,c   Strada, Elisabetta ^a   Srinivasan, Ranjani ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION DISORDERS; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0034604061     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0275-5408(99)00065-4     Document Type: Article

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