Ocular aberrations in barn owl eyes

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 2934-2942

  Harmening, Wolf M ^a   Vobig, Michael A ^a   Walter, Peter ^a   Wagner, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal vision; Barn owl; Convolution; Modulation transfer function; Point spread function; Tscherning principle; Wavefront aberration

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; VISION; WAVEFORM;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ANIMALS; ASTIGMATISM; BIRD DISEASES; FEMALE; MALE; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; PUPIL; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RETINA; STRIGIFORMES; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 34848880557     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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