Influences of examiner position and effective prism power on nearpoint alternate cover test

Optometry

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 496-502

  Johnson, Robb ^a   Wynn, Shane ^a   Coffey, Bradley ^a  

^a PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Examinations; Exophoria; Nearpoint alternating cover test; Testing; Testing procedures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTOMETRY; POSITION EFFECT; POWER SPECTRUM; PRISM; PROBABILITY; REFRACTION ERROR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TECHNIQUE; VISION;

EID: 4444335555     PISSN: 15291839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1529-1839(04)70174-8     Document Type: Article

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