Validation of the PowerRefractor for measuring human infant refraction

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 346-353

  Blade, Pamela J ^a   Candy, T Rowan ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Eccentric photorefraction; Infant; PowerRefractor; Refraction

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA REDUCTION; FOCUSING; FUNCTIONS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; VISION;

ECCENTRIC PHOTOREFRACTION; INFANT; POWERREFRACTOR; RETINOSCOPY;

REFRACTION;

ACCOMMODATION; ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA REFLEX; EYE REFRACTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENT; LENS; LIGHT REFRACTION; MEASUREMENT; MYOPIA; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTOMETER; OPTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; RETINOSCOPY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; OPTOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUES; REFRACTION, OCULAR;

EID: 33745283989     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.opx.0000221402.35099.fb     Document Type: Article

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