PURPOSE In this study, spectral analysis of the deformation signal from Corvis-ST (CoST) and reflected light intensity from ocular response analyzer (ORA) was performed to evaluate biomechanical concordance with each other. METHODS The study was non-interventional, observational, cross-sectional and involved 188 eyes from 94 normal subjects. Three measurements were made on each eye with ORA a...

Finite element (FE) modeling and multibody dynamics have traditionally been applied separately to the domains of tissue mechanics and musculoskeletal movements, respectively. Simultaneous simulation of both domains is needed when interactions between tissue and movement are of interest, but this has remained largely impractical due to the high computational cost. Here we present a method for th...

The short-term effects of whole-body vibration as a novel method of somatosensory stimulation on postural control were investigated in 23 chronic stroke patients. While standing on a commercial platform, patients received 30-Hz oscillations at 3 mm of amplitude in the frontal plane. Balance was assessed four times at 45-min intervals with a dual-plate force platform, while quietly standing with...

PURPOSE To evaluate tear film stability and optical aberrations in eyes wearing plano Lotrafilcon B contact lenses (CL). METHODS Tear Deformation Time (TDT) and aberrometric parameters were assessed in 86 normal emmetropic eyes before and 6 h after wearing CL. RESULT A statistically significant decrease in TDT and increase in root mean square (RMS) values of higher order aberrations (HOA) w...

For this investigation, we studied the effects of extremely low frequency pulse electromagnetic fields (ELF-PEMF) on the human cardiac signal. Electrocardiograms (ECGs) of 22 healthy volunteers before and after a short duration of ELF-PEMF exposure were recorded. The experiment was conducted under single-blind conditions. The root mean square (RMS) value of the recorded data was considered as c...

We report root-mean-square (RMS) wavefront error (WFE) for individual aberrations and cumulative high-order (HO) RMS WFE for the normal human eye as a function of age by decade and pupil diameter in 1 mm steps from 3 to 7 mm and determine the relationship among HO RMS WFE, mean age for each decade of life, and luminance for physiologic pupil diameters. Subjects included 146 healthy individuals ...

An efficient numerical scheme, which is based on the splitting-step idea [20], for simulation of mean-reverting square-root diffusions is presented in this paper. We prove positivity preservation for this scheme and an estimate of its local error in the second moment. A series of numerical experiments based on MATLAB programs is given to compare the suggested scheme with the schemes of the bala...

purpose: to compare the effects of standard tissue saving method and personalized techniques of photorefractive keratectomy (prk) on aberration changes in fellow eyes. methods: this randomized controlled trial was performed on patients who were referred to isfahan parsian clinic during 2007. after a comprehensive ophthalmologic examination, prk was randomly performed using tissue saving (ts) te...

Correction of terrestrial Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) intensity data has been increasingly studied in recent years. The purpose is to obtain additional insight into the scanned environment that is not available from the geometric information alone. Radiometric correction, as the name implies, corrects the received intensity to standard reflectance values in the range of (0, 1). This cor...