Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 133-140 , June 2009

Assessment of computer generated vision charts

  • Klaus Ehrmann

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Eye Research, Sydney, Australia
    • School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
    • Vision Cooperative Research Centre, Sydney, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, 2052 Sydney, Australia. Tel.: +61 2 9385 7495; fax: +61 2 9385 7401.
    • ,
  • Cathleen Fedtke

      Affiliations

    • School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
    • Vision Cooperative Research Centre, Sydney, Australia
    • Aalen University, Aalen, Germany
    • ,
  • Alexa Radić

      Affiliations

    • School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
    • Vision Cooperative Research Centre, Sydney, Australia
    • Aalen University, Aalen, Germany

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doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2008.09.005

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 133-140 , June 2009

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