Visual impact of zernike and seidel forms of monochromatic aberrations

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 300-312

  Cheng, Xu ^a,b   Bradley, Arthur ^a   Ravikumar, Sowmya ^a   Thibos, Larry N ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Vistakon   (United States)

Author keywords

Monochromatic aberrations; Retinal image quality; Seidel; Visual acuity; Zernike

Indexed keywords

BASIS FUNCTIONS; DEFOCUS; FOURTH-ORDER; HIGH CONTRAST; HIGHER ORDER; IMAGE QUALITY METRICS; METHOD OF CONSTANT STIMULUS; MINIMUM ANGLE OF RESOLUTION; MONOCHROMATIC ABERRATIONS; ORDER COMPONENT; PARAXIAL; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; PUPIL DIAMETER; QUASI-MONOCHROMATIC; RETINAL IMAGE; RETINAL IMAGE QUALITY; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SECOND ORDERS; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPACTS; WAVEFRONT ERRORS; ZERNIKE; ZERNIKE ABERRATIONS;

ALDEHYDES; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; IMAGE QUALITY; MONOCHROMATORS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; VISION; WAVEFRONTS;

ABERRATIONS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; REFRACTION ERROR; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY;

HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 77951930984     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0b013e3181d95217     Document Type: Article

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