The Charles F. Prentice award lecture 2005: Optics of the human eye: Progress and problems

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 335-345

  Charman, W Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apodization; Mach effect; Modulation transfer function; Ocular aberration; Stiles Crawford effect; Wavefront errors; Zernike polynomials

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; MONOCHROMATORS; NEUROLOGY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; POLYNOMIALS; REFRACTION;

APODIZATION; MACH EFFECTS; OCULAR ABERRATION; STILES-CRAWFORD EFFECT; WAVEFRONT ERRORS; ZERNIKE POLYNOMIALS;

ABERRATIONS;

AGING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COLOR VISION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EYE; EYE DISEASE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; NIGHT VISION; OPTICS; OPTOMETRY; PHOTOPIC VISION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA IMAGE; SAMPLE; VISION;

AGING; AWARDS AND PRIZES; EYE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; OPTOMETRY; REFRACTION, OCULAR; VISION;

EID: 33745287879     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.opx.0000221389.36278.d0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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