Construction and validation of a Tamil logMAR chart

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 549-556

  Varadharajan, Srinivasa ^a   Srinivasan, Krithica ^a   Kumaresan, Brindha ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

Author keywords

Legibility; Letter charts; Repeatability; Validation; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORNEA; CORNEA DISEASE; CUSTOM ABLATION MANAGER; EXCIMER LASER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KERATOMILEUSIS; NOISE; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; REPRODUCIBILITY; TOPOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 68949152583     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: 14751313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2009.00657.x     Document Type: Article

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