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Monocular acuity in normal infants: the acuity card procedure. 1986

M McDonald, and S L Sebris, and G Mohn, and D Y Teller, and V Dobson

An "acuity card" technique has been developed for rapid assessment of visual acuity in infants. In this procedure an adult observer shows the infant a series of cards that contain gratings of various spatial frequencies and estimates acuity as the highest spatial frequency that the infant is judged to see. The present paper shows that the acuity card procedure can be used in a laboratory setting to estimate both monocular and binocular acuity in infants 1 to 12 months of age. Four monocular and two binocular acuity estimates were obtained on 36 normal infants, six each at ages 4, 8, and 16 weeks and 6, 9, and 12 months. Acuity estimate means and SD's agreed well with previously established preferential looking (PL) norms for each of the test ages. Time required for a monocular or a binocular test averaged 3 to 6 min.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007223	Infant	A child between 1 and 23 months of age.	Infants
D012016	Reference Values	The range or frequency distribution of a measurement in a population (of organisms, organs or things) that has not been selected for the presence of disease or abnormality.	Normal Range,Normal Values,Reference Ranges,Normal Ranges,Normal Value,Range, Normal,Range, Reference,Ranges, Normal,Ranges, Reference,Reference Range,Reference Value,Value, Normal,Value, Reference,Values, Normal,Values, Reference
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000367	Age Factors	Age as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or the effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from AGING, a physiological process, and TIME FACTORS which refers only to the passage of time.	Age Reporting,Age Factor,Factor, Age,Factors, Age
D014787	Vision Tests	A series of tests used to assess various functions of the eyes.	Test, Vision,Tests, Vision,Vision Test
D014792	Visual Acuity	Clarity or sharpness of OCULAR VISION or the ability of the eye to see fine details. Visual acuity depends on the functions of RETINA, neuronal transmission, and the interpretative ability of the brain. Normal visual acuity is expressed as 20/20 indicating that one can see at 20 feet what should normally be seen at that distance. Visual acuity can also be influenced by brightness, color, and contrast.	Acuities, Visual,Acuity, Visual,Visual Acuities