Visual Acuity with Reversed-Contrast Charts: I. Theoretical and Psychophysical Investigations

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 745-748

  Westheimer, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast polarity; Resolution; Retinal image; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

EYE MOVEMENTS; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

RETINAL IMAGE; VISUAL ACUITY (VA);

VISION;

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CALCULATION; CONTRAST; CONTRAST POLARITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; EYE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE DISPLAY; LANDOLT C RESOLUTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LUMINANCE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; POINT SPREAD FUNCTION; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA IMAGE; REVERSED CONTRAST CHART; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THEORY; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0242628980     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-200311000-00010     Document Type: Article

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