| ISBN | 0865426678 | | Pages | 256 | | ISBN13 | 9780865426672
(What's this?) | | Published in | Oxford | | Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Imprint | Blackwell Science Ltd | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Format | Paperback | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | Publication date | 07 Mar 1997 | |
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Preface; 1. Fundamental First Principles Necessary for Understanding the Rest of the Book: concept of permanence: cell and tissue turn over, etc.; Concepts of Development: the inverted retina, where the lens came from, etc.; Radiation: nature of light, wavelength, Beer's & Lambert's Laws, optical density and transmissivity, radiometry & photometry; 2. Transparency; 3. Transduction; 4. Signal processing; 5. Sensitivity Control & Adaptation; 6. Optical Performance; 7. Visual Performance; 8. Eye Movements; 9. Tissue Nutrition; a)vascular mechanisms; b)non-vascular mechanisms; 10. Protection, repair and renenwal; 11. Ageing; Index.
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