Influence of Stiles-Crawford apodization on visual acuity

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1073-1083

  Atchison, David A ^a   Scott, Dion H ^a   Strang, Niall C ^b   Artal, Pablo ^c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c LABORATORIO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FILTERS;

VISUAL ACUITY;

ABERRATIONS;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; LIGHT; MYOPIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PUPIL; REFRACTION ERROR; VISUAL ACUITY;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; LIGHT; MYOPIA; PUPIL; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0036615730     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.19.001073     Document Type: Article

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