Critical flicker fusion test of potential vision

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 232-239

  Shankar, Hema ^a   Pesudovs, Konrad ^a  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLASSIFICATION; CORNEA OPACITY; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LENS OPACITIES CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM III; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETINA DISEASE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGED; CATARACT; FEMALE; FLICKER FUSION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL DISEASES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION DISORDERS; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33846647399     PISSN: 08863350     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2006.10.042     Document Type: Article

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