Visual performance requirements for post-PRK police recruits

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 163-172

  Jacobs, Robert J ^a   Hendicott, Peter L ^a   Murphy, Bryre ^b   Poppelwell, David ^b   Turner, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Edge contrast sensitivity; Glare disability; LASIK; Low contrast visual acuity; Low luminance acuity; Photo refractive keratectomy; Police vision; Vision standards; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750936537     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.1998.tb06775.x     Document Type: Article

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