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V. Climent
Laser Speckle Size And Temporal Transfer Function In Human Vision
Using a blue laser stimulus we measured TMTF with speckle sizes of 19.1 µm, 3.3 µm and absence of speckle. Our results indicate, if we compare the TMTF curves obtained for different speckle sizes, a gain of modulation due fundamentally to the presence of the spec kle; in the low frequency region this gain of modulation can be explained in terms of inhibitory effects. On the other hand, we observe by using the diffusion-inhibition model, that the presence of speckle in the test-field produces a delay of 12 ms and a reduction of the height of the response, with respect to that obtained in the uniform test (with absence of speckle).
Visual defects in subjects with Down’s syndrome
Because the incidence of other visual defects is much higher in cases of Down’s syndrome than in individuals with other forms of retardation (Gardiner, 1967; Aitchison et al., 1990), we tested the color vision of a population of Down’s syndrome patients, using Ishihara plates and the Davico anomaloscope. The Down’s syndrome group had a significantly higher proportion of color deficiencies than either normal controls or a matched mentally retarded population. Refractive errors were corrected with static retinoscopy, and spatial contrast sensitivity was measured with the Vistech test.
Vision evaluation in people with Down's syndrome.
We tested the colour vision of 72 people with Down's syndrome using the Ishihara test and an anomaloscope. We found that 13 of the subjects, 6 males and 7 females, had defective colour vision according to Pickford's classification. In monocular vision 10 eyes were protan (five simple, three extreme and two deviant), one eye was simple deuteranomalous and the remaining eyes were normal: in binocular vision four of the subjects were protan (two simple and two deviant), two subjects were deutan (one simple and one deviant) and the rest were normal. Many of our subjects had lens opacities, strabismus, nystagmus, hypermetropia, high myopia and astigmatism, confirming literature reports. The cont…
Parallel Phase-Shifting Digital Holography Based on the Fractional Talbot Effect
Digital holography allows us to record and process digitally the complex amplitude distribution associated to diffracted light beams and therefore has offered new possibilities for a variety of applications such as 3D microscopy, interferometry, or information security (see, for example, review [1]). In principle, phase-shifting techniques are the most efficient in terms of spatial resolution to record digital holograms [2]. However, a sequential acquisition of several interference patterns with different phase retardations of the reference beam is necessary, preventing dynamic measurements. Different techniques for time-resolved dynamic interferometry have been developed allowing one-shot …