Basic quantitative assessment of visual performance in patients with very low vision

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1255-1260

  Bach, Michael ^a   Wilke, Michaela ^b   Wilhelm, Barbara ^c   Zrenner, Eberhart ^c   Wilke, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; DECISION MAKING; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; RETINA DISEASE; VISION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; RETINAL DISEASES; VISION TESTS; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77449099647     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3512     Document Type: Article

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