Visual Acuity Adler’s Physiology of the Eye 11th Ed.

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Visual Acuity Adler’s Physiology of the Eye 11th Ed. Chapter 33 - by Dennis Levi

Visual Acuity • Keeness of Sight, possible to be defined in different ways • Minimum Visual Acuity - detection of a feature, intuitive, has roots in astronomy, but not a spatial limit per se. Actually limited by contrast sensitivity, depends on background illumination, limit about 0.5 arcsec for a wire.

Visual Acuity • Minimum Resolvable Acuity - separation of 2 features (i.e., double stars), finest high contrast detail visible, for width of light and dark bar of a grating, limit about 1 arcmin (0.017 deg) for fovea. Determined by photoreceptor sampling 0.5 arcmin Nyquist Limit- spatial period 2x the cone spacing

Visual Acuity • Minimum Recognizable Acuity - angular size of the smallest Feature that one can recognize or identify Snellen Chart block letters 5 times stroke size. normal defined at 20 ft, 6 m. 20/20 = 5 arcmin letter = 1 arcmin stroke In MAR units 20/20 =1, 20/40 = 2 Other notations: 1/MAR, LogMAR, Log(1/MAR)

Visual Acuity • Minimum Discriminable Acuity - angular size of the smallest change in a feature (e.g., position) that one can identify. Vernier acuity is termed a hyperacutiy, limit of 3 arcsec (0.0008deg). This is 10 times smaller than width of a foveal cone. Optics of eye spread out the photons, and the information to distinguish A from B is present, but it must be cortical neurons that interpolate this information with high resolution.

What Limits Visual Acuity? Optics of the Eye - far from perfect, spreads the retinal image, a point becomes a Gausian, called point spread function Rayleigh Limit - distance between points exceeds half the spread of each point, determined by pupil size & wavelenth of light.

What Limits Visual Acuity? Optics of the Eye - far from perfect, sinewave gratings lose contrast, depending on SF, called modulation transfer function MTF - ratio of image contrast to object contrast for a range of SF. Cutoff spatial frequency

What Limits Visual Acuity? Optics of the Eye - far from perfect, in addition to physical diffraction that depends on pupil size, the are spherical aberrations, uncorrected Refractive errors, and astigmatism. Larger pupils allow more diffraction & decreases depth of focus *1D of uncorrected myopia ~ 20/60

What Limits Visual Acuity? Photoreceptor Spacing - photoreceptors are densely packed in a triangular array, with foveal cones spaced about 0.5 arcmin, so Nyquist sampling limit is at grating period of 1 minute = 60 cpd. Actually 69 cpd due to triangular array. Well matched to optics At fovea, but falls dramatically in periphery. fovea periphery

What Limits Visual Acuity? Cone to ganglion cell convergence - In the fovea, cones have a ‘private line’ to a single ganglion cell, in periphery Resolution is limited by ganglion cells that are widely Spaced and pool from many cones. 1 degree

What Limits Visual Acuity? Eccentricity and Cortical Magnification Factor - Many visual Functions decline approx. linearly with eccentricity (E2 = eccentricity at which foveal value has doubled). Peripheral vision is also limited by the CMF, which reflects retinal anatomy, but is further enhanced in cortex. at fovea 1 deg = 20mm at 10 deg 1 deg = 1.5mm

What Limits Visual Acuity? Crowding - In peripheral vision, the identification of a letter,which can be easily identified in isolation, is severely impaired by neighboring letters. Spatial extent of crowing can be as much as 0.5 times the target eccentricty In addition to theoretical interest, this has practical implications for testing vision, for reading, and for amblyopia. *radial worst

What Limits Visual Acuity? Luminance - at moderate photopic luminance, visual acuity Remains fairly constant, however under very low luminance scotopic conditions, acuity is mediated by rods, at around 20/200

What Limits Visual Acuity? Contrast - visual acuity is strongly dependent on visual contrast Acuity for Sloan letters improves with the square root of target contrast

What Limits Visual Acuity? Anisotropies - In fovea acuity and contrast sensitivity better for horizontal and vertical gratings than oblique. In periphery, a bias for radial orientations dominates, particularly seen for crowding foveal peripheral

What Limits Visual Acuity? Reading - performance highly correlated with crowding, the Letter spacing seems to be more important than letter size.

* = resolution limit at 100% contrast Vision at Low Contrast How can we characterize our sensitivity to larger objects, that may not have high contrast? Contrast Sensitivity Function (CSF) Sensitivity = 1/threshold * neural factors optical factors * = resolution limit at 100% contrast

Vision at Low Contrast The CSF can be measured under different conditions, and changes shape. This reflects changes in neural substrates. Less loss of low sf than high

Vision at Low Contrast The CSF varies across eccentricities. For a fixed stimulus size, Sensitivity falls steeply in periphery, but if scaled according to ganglion cell density, then much closer probability summation magnification theory fovea 7.5 deg 30 deg

Clinical Tests of Visual Acuity Modern Principles: Same number of elements on each line Constant ration from one size to the next Proportional spacing between letters and lines Nearly equal legibility of optotypes Hence, V shaped appearance *Note however that crowding in periphery and Strabismic amblyopia is follows a fixed not Proportional spacing rule

Clinical Tests of Visual Acuity Pelli-Robson CS Chart Although not routinely measured, several clinical chart tests of contrast sensitivity are available. They will emphasize different SF depending on letter size. 0.5 deg at 3m 20/120 Bailey-Lovie Chart