Thresholds for sampled sloan letters are smaller than sample spacing

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1142-1150

  Carkeet, Andrew ^a   Gerasimou, Daniel F ^a   Parsonson, Loralie R ^a   Biffin, Krystle L ^a   Fredericksen, Ben J ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Letter acuity; Letter counting; Nyquist limit; Probit; Sloan letters; Spatial sampling

Indexed keywords

LETTER ACUITY; LETTER-COUNTING; NYQUIST LIMIT; PROBIT; SLOAN LETTERS; SPATIAL SAMPLING;

COMPUTER MONITORS; VISIBILITY;

OPTOMETERS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL THRESHOLD; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; READING; REFERENCE VALUE;

COMPUTERS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59849089205     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e31818e8d41     Document Type: Article

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