Visual Acuity with Reversed-Contrast Charts: II. Clinical Investigation

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 749-752

  Westheimer, Gerald ^a,b   Chu, Patricia ^b   Huang, Wendy ^b   Tran, Thuy ^b   Dister, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Resolution; Retinal image; Snellen charts; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFRACTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PATIENT TREATMENT;

VISUAL ACUITY (VA);

VISION;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTRAST; CONTRAST POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE REFRACTION; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; LIGHT SCATTERING; LUMINANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; OPTICS; POINT SPREAD FUNCTION; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETINA IMAGE; REVERSED CONTRAST CHART; SCATTERGRAM; SNELLEN TEST TYPE; STANDARD; TECHNIQUE; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETINA; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0242496527     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-200311000-00011     Document Type: Article

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