Prcis: The diagnostic performance for detecting early glaucoma of a supra-threshold and a threshold visual field tests are compared. Their performance was found to be equivalent with the supra-threshold test being faster.
Purpose: To compare the diagnostic accuracy of a supra-threshold and a threshold visual field test in detecting early glaucoma using optical coherence tomography (OCT) as the reference standard.
Introduction: Driving standards policy is set by the Department for Transport and executed by the Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA). Professional bodies recognise the challenges that clinicians face when advising patients with glaucoma about driving. This study explored clinicians' knowledge and confidence around driving standards and their approach to advising and guiding patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe estimated spatial summation areas for the detection of luminance-modulated (LM) and contrast-modulated (CM) blobs at the fovea, 2.5, 5 and 10 deg eccentrically. Gaussian profiles were added or multiplied to binary white noise to create LM and CM blob stimuli and these were used to psychophysically estimate detection thresholds and spatial summation areas.
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