A technique to improve an eye cataract early detection and quantitative evaluation of maturity using ultrasound was investigated. A broadband coherent signal, backscattered from an eye lens tissue, was digitized, recorded and processed. A new parameter – lens quality was proposed for the human eye cataract quantitative evaluation. Lens quality reflects two phenomena of ultrasound interaction wi...

Genetic ablation techniques were used to study the role of the lens in mammalian eye development. Ablation was accomplished by microinjecting murine eggs with chimeric DNA constructs in which the aA-crystallin gene regulatory sequence (—366 to +46) was fused to the highly cvtotoxic diphtheria toxin gene coding sequence. For genetic ablation to be successful the promoter regulating expression sh...

Abbreviations: UGH: Uveitis-Glaucoma-Hyphema; IOL: Intraocular Lens; ACIOL: Anterior Chamber Intraocular Lens; PCIOL: Posterior Chamber Intraocular Lens; GCA: Giant Cell Arteritis; NVI: Neovascularization of the Iris; YAG: Yttrium Aluminum Garnet; OD: Right Eye; OS: Left Eye; HbA1c: Hemoglobin A1C; PEE: Punctate Epithelial Erosion; IEI: Illinois Eye Institute; QD: 1 time a day; BID: 2 times a d...

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The paper deals with recognition of artificial landmarks using fish-eye lens. The proposed recognition model is based on algebraic affine moment invariants (AMIs). Landmarks are used for the navigation of an autonomous robot, equipped with a fisheye lens camera. The recognition ability of the AMIs regarding the deformation introduced by the fish-eye lens image acquisition is investigated. The r...

An SRI dual Purkinje image (dPi) eye tracker was used to measure lens wobble following saccades with increasing accommodative effort as an indirect measure of ciliary muscle function in presbyopes. Ten presbyopic subjects executed 32 four-degree saccades at 1-s intervals between targets arranged in a cross on illuminated cards at each of 9 viewing distances ranging from 0.5- to 8-D accommodativ...

AIMS To study binocular function in patients with longstanding asymmetric keratoconus. METHODS In 20 adult patients with longstanding asymmetric keratoconus managed with a scleral contact lens a full clinical and orthoptic assessment was performed with and without the scleral contact lens in the poorer eye. RESULTS All 20 patients had a corrected acuity of at least 6/9 in their better eye. ...

We consider the technical possibility of an adaptive contact lens and an adaptive eye lens implant based on the modal liquid crystal wavefront corrector, aimed to correct the accommodation loss and higher-order aberrations of the human eye. Our first demonstrator with 5 mm optical aperture is capable of changing the focusing power in the range of 0 to +3 diopters and can be controlled via a wir...

A 24-year old male sulfur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) was presented with a subacute perforation of the cornea without involvement of the lens. The bird was treated conservatively and the eye remained quiescent up to a second traumatic corneal perforation associated with a lens capsule rupture 15 months later. Due to the second perforating trauma of an already blind eye involving the len...

Presbyopia is closely associated with the loss of accommodation, and hence with a decline in the viscoelastic properties of the human eye lens. In this article we describe a method for obtaining spatially resolved in vivo measurements of the rheological properties of the eye lens, based on the spectroscopic analysis of spontaneous Brillouin scattering using a virtually imaged phased array (VIPA...