Effect of sport-tinted contact lenses for contrast enhancement on retinal straylight measurements

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 151-156

  Cerviño, Alejandro ^a   Gonzalez Meijome, Jose M ^b   Linhares, João M M ^b   Hosking, Sarah L ^c,d,e   Montes Mico, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contact lens; Ocular scatter; Polymacon; Retinal straylight; Tinted lens

Indexed keywords

POLYMACON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTACT LENS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT SCATTERING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOPIC VISION; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; RETINA; SPORT; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; COLOR; CONTACT LENSES; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETINA; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPORTS EQUIPMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VISION TESTS;

EID: 40749116911     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: 14751313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2008.00541.x     Document Type: Article

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