Equiblur zones at the fovea and near retinal periphery

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 3690-3698

  Wang, Bin ^a   Ciuffreda, Kenneth J ^a   Irish, Trevor ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blur; Depth of focus; Retinal defocus; Retinal eccentricity; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION PARALYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MONOCULAR VISION; OPTOMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FIXATION, OCULAR; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33748437217     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.04.005     Document Type: Article

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