CE marking is no guarantee that your eye chart is correctly manufactured!

CE marking is no guarantee that your eye chart is correctly manufactured! Eye charts fall under medical devices class 1, and for class 1 equipment, it is solely up to the manufacturer to indicate whether the product meets quality requirements and guidelines for the correct execution of the eye chart. CE marking is therefore not…

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Logmar explained

What Are the Advantages of Switching to Using the Logarithmic Scale as a Measurement Unit in Vision Tests? A LogMAR Eye Chart (Logarithmic Minimum Angle of Resolution) is designed to enable a more accurate measurement of visual acuity than other methods. If vision test results are to be consistent and comparable, health authorities recommend the…

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How to Measure Your Child’s Vision with the LogMAR Scale

Screening of Children – the New Thresholds for Referral (LogMAR). Normal vision in children and adults is defined as 6/6 vision or decimal 1.00. The Danish Health Authority’s current guideline on “Preventive Health Services for Children and Adolescents” states that children should be referred to an ophthalmologist if the vision test result is worse than…

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Practice vision charts

Here you can view, download, and print practice charts for children, and we recommend showing them to the child/test subject before the actual test on the vision chart. We have created practice charts for the 3 types of Optotypes: Eyekey, Similar, and Wekey. Eyekey Eyekey Download PDF – versions   Eyekey-swedish Eyekey-spanish Eyekey-norwegian Eyekey-italian Eyekey-german…

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Remote control for the ISOeyes eye chart

1 ON TURN ON THE VISION CHART 2 OFF TURN OFF THE VISION CHART 3 INCREASE BRIGHTNESS PRESS TO INCREASE BRIGHTNESS STEPWISE 4 DECREASE BRIGHTNESS PRESS TO DECREASE BRIGHTNESS STEPWISE 5 WARMER LIGHT PRESS AND HOLD TO SWITCH TO WARMER LIGHT 6 COOLER LIGHT PRESS AND HOLD TO SWITCH TO COOLER LIGHT 7 NIGHT MODE…

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Height Placement of the Eye Chart

Place the Eye Chart Correctly to Get Accurate Vision Test Results If all eye charts were calibrated the same and had the same dimensions, and we humans were all the same height, a vision chart could always be placed at the same height and distance from the test subject, whether a child or an adult,…

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Particularly vision charts for children can still be misleading

It is not only the English figure chart from Kay Pictures that, according to recognized research, produces overly favorable vision test results compared to the reference chart from Landolt C (according to ISO 8596). The same is true for the Østerberg chart, which has been widely used in Denmark for decades. “Two out of three…

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The History of the Development of the Modern Vision Test

Visual Function Scales Related to Visual Acuity The measurement of visual acuity starts with defining the stimulus parameters: symbol size and viewing distance. The reference standard for size was defined by Snellen; the term “M-unit” was coined by Sloan. The reference standard for distance is the meter and its inverse, the diopter. Based on these…

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ISHIHARA visual color eye test

Color Vision Test with the ISHIHARA System The 38 ISHIHARA Plates Download the overview: Danish version PDF International version PDF   Plate 1 Everyone should be able to see the number 12. Plate 2 Normal vision: 8 Red-green deficiency: 3 Plate 3 Normal vision: 6 Red-green deficiency: 5 Plate 4 Normal vision: 29 Red-green deficiency:…

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