Spatial and spatial-frequency analysis in visual optics

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 271-281

  Westheimer, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fourier transforms; Gabor transforms; Hyperacuity; Optical transfer functions; Superresolution; Wigner distribution functions

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REVIEW; VISUAL ACUITY;

FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPTICAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84862492628     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: 14751313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2012.00913.x     Document Type: Review

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