PURPOSE To compare the optical performance of 6 presbyopia-correcting intraocular lenses (IOLs) of different designs (accommodating or multifocal and aspheric or spheric). SETTING Alcon Laboratories, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, USA. METHODS The optical performance of 6 IOLs were compared using modulation transfer function (MTF) and the United States Air Force 1951 Resolution Target (AFT) testi...

Several intraocular lens (IOL) materials and types are currently available. Polymethyl methacrylate IOLs used to be the gold standard, but the inability of folding limits their use to selected countries and patients. Silicone IOLs were used more in the past because they are less suitable for microincisions. Foldable hydrophobic acrylic is the most popular material, which is also available in ye...

The performance of an intraocular lens is determined by several factors such as the surgical technique, surgical complications, intraocular lens biomaterial and design, and host reaction to the lens. The factor indicating the biocompatibility of an intraocular lens is the behavior of inflammatory and lens epithelial cells. Hence, the biocompatibility of intraocular lens materials is assessed in...

Aspheric optical components are the indispensable part of modern optics systems. With the constant development of aspheric optical fabrication technique, the systems with large aperture convex aspheric optical components are widely used in astronomy and space optics. Thus, the measurement of the figure error of the whole convex aspherical surface with high precision comes to be a challenge in t...

The energy distribution between the distance and near images formed in a model eye by three different apodized diffractive multifocal intraocular lenses (IOLs) is experimentally determined in an optical bench. The model eye has an artificial cornea with positive spherical aberration (SA) similar to human cornea. The level of SA upon the IOL, which is pupil size dependent, is controlled using a ...

PURPOSE To quantify the change in ocular aberrations due to intraocular lens (IOL) implantation position errors for pseudo-phakic eyes with different refractive errors. METHODS The theoretical part of this work was based on ray-tracing in emmetropic and myopic eye models. The possible misalignments i.e. the decentration, tilt and axial translation, of the IOLs were statistically combined toge...

A new, single-piece, hydrophobic acrylic lens - the first constructed with a lens optic and haptics comprised of a hydroxyethyl methacrylate-polyethylene glycol phenyl ether acrylate-styrene copolymer, cross-linked with ethylene glycol dimethacrylate, and labeled as "glistening-free" - was recently introduced globally. Glistenings have been a significant source of clinical concern with previous...

A method for designing double aspheric lenses enabling minimal Fresnel losses in the class of stigmatic is considered. Minimization provided by ensuring equal ray-deviation angles on both surfaces lens. The design lens reduced to integration an explicit ordinary differential equation. Simple analytical approximations profiles are also presented.

PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy of AcrySof SN60WF aspheric intraocular lens (IOL) in decreasing spherical aberration and total higher order aberrations (HOAs) after cataract surgery compared to the spherical SN60AT lens. METHODS Wavefront analysis was conducted on 28 eyes of 28 patients that underwent un-complicated phacoemulsification with implantation of either SN60WF (15 eyes) or SN60AT l...

SEPTEMBER 2009 I CATARACT & REFRACTIVE SURGERY TODAY EUROPE I 31 O ur visual system integrates the refractive surfaces of the cornea and the crystalline lens; the positive spherical aberration (SA) of the cornea is partially cancelled out by the negative SA of the crystalline lens.1,2 As the eye ages, the cornea remains fairly stable, but the crystalline lens thickens at the periphery, inducing...