Assessing the severity of color vision loss with implications for aviation and other occupational environments

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-29

  Rodriguez Carmona, Marisa ^a   O'Neill Biba, Matilda ^a   Barbur, John L ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CAD test; Color deficiency; Cone contrasts; Ishihara pseudoisochromatic plates

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; COLOR VISION DEFECT; COLOR VISION TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84856611887     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.3111.2012     Document Type: Article

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