Abstract
Visual Acuity (VA) is a measure of the visual system’s ability to see distinctly the details of an object. This chapter will discuss the commonly used VA measure and its measurement.
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Abbreviations
- MAR:
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Minimum Angle of Resolution
- VA:
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Visual Acuity
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Lakshminarayanan, V. (2012). Visual Acuity. In: Chen, J., Cranton, W., Fihn, M. (eds) Handbook of Visual Display Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79567-4_6
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