Effect of positive and negative defocus on contrast sensitivity in myopes and non-myopes

Vision Research

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 1869-1878

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

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aberration; Accommodation; Contrast sensitivity; Defocus; Myopia

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LENS CAPSULE; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; MYOPIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MYOPIA; RETINA; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 2442503638     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.03.007     Document Type: Article

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