9- Spatial Vision Flashcards
What is spatial vision concerned with?
Variations in luminance across space
What are the 2 characteristics of sine-wave grating
Frequency and contrast
Low spatial frequency grating looks like
Bars more spread out
High spatial frequency bars look like
Closer together
Lower contrast bars
Dimmer, paler
High contrast bars appear
Darker
A lens is used to form an image of a sine wave grating. What does the spatial frequency depend on?
Magnification of the lens
A lens is used to form an image of a sine-wave grating. What affects modulation depth
The quality of the lens
For a real lens, as spatial frequencyof the object becomes greater, what happens to the amplitude?
Gets smaller
What is resolution
An imaging systems ability to distinguish object detail
What is contrast
How faithfully the min and max intensity values are transferred from object to image plane
OTF:
MTF+ PTF
What does the MTF measure
The lens ability to transfer contrast at a articulate resolution from the object to image
As line spacing decreases what affect does that have on the lenses ability to transfer the contrast?
More difficult
MTF decreases
In an on axis optical system is there any change in phase with spatial frequency?
No
At low-moderate spatial frequencies do aberration have an affect?
Not as big as in high frequencies
What is the effect of optical defocus on SMTF?
Defocus results in a reduction in image quality at high frequencies
What is the effect of translucent optics on SMTF?
Overall reduction in overall reduction in image contrast at ALL frequencies
The image formed by the lens is highly degraded
For higher levels of defocus what happens to MTF
Decreases the then becomes negative
What happens to the image pattern with MTF is negative
Reversed contrast
What is the resolution limit
Spatial frequency at which the modulation transfer function first goes to 0
What is spurious resolution
Any resolution of higher frequency pattern
Point where the grating is first seen by the patient
Contrast threshold
What is the reciprocal of contrast threshold
Contrast sensitivity