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Visual Acuity

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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:

Minimum Angle of Resolution

VA:

Visual Acuity

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. School of Optometry and Departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West Waterloo, Ontario, N2l 3G1, Canada

    Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

  2. Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

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Correspondence to Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan .

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  1. Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Janglin Chen

  2. Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

    Wayne Cranton

  3. Veritas et Visus, Texas, USA

    Mark Fihn

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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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