Unequal Reduction in Visual Acuity with Positive and Negative Defocusing Lenses in Myopes

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 14-17

  Radhakrishnan, Hema ^a   Pardhan, Shahina ^a   Calver, Richard I ^a   O'Leary, Daniel J ^a  

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accommodative response; Defocus; Myopia; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES;

VISUAL ACUITY;

VISION;

ACCOMMODATION; ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; LENS; MYOPIA; OPTICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SPECTACLES; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYEGLASSES; HUMANS; MYOPIA; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0742305079     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-200401000-00005     Document Type: Article

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