Temporal Properties of Liquid Crystal Displays: Implications for Vision Science Experiments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Elze, Tobias ^a,b   Tanner, Thomas G ^c  

^a SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY; LUMINANCE; MOTION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION;

ARTIFACTS; CALIBRATION; CATHODE RAY TUBE; COLOR; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOTION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 84866283865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044048     Document Type: Article

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