Assessing the utility of visual acuity measures in visual prostheses

Vision Research

Volumn 108, Issue , 2015, Pages 77-84

  Caspi, Avi ^a,b   Zivotofsky, Ari Z ^c  

^a JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Second Sight Medical Products Inc   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Head scanning; Pixelized vision; Retinal prosthesis; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; SIMULATOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PROSTHESIS; VISUAL STIMULATION; BLINDNESS; DEVICES; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETINA; STANDARDS; VISION TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETINA; VISION TESTS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PROSTHESIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922470463     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2015.01.006     Document Type: Article

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