Oculokinetic perimetry is a new method of visual field assessment in which the patient moves the eye around a central static target to look sequentially at an array of numbers. When fixation on a number is accompanied by disappearance of the central target, that number is deleted from a recording chart. Inversion of the recording chart gives a plot of the central visual field. In this study we ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the performance of automated perimetry of elderly subjects naïve to AP after listening to a Mozart sonata. INTRODUCTION Automated perimetry (AP) is a psychophysical test used to assess visual fields in patients with neurological disorders and glaucoma. In a previous study, Fiorelli et al. showed that young subjects who listened to a Mozart sonata prior to undergoing AP per...

PURPOSE To determine the magnitude of the homogeneous, LF(Ho), and the heterogeneous, LF(He), components of the long-term fluctuation (LF) in glaucoma suspects and in stable primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) patients undergoing short-wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP) and to compare the magnitude of the SWAP LF components with those elicited by standard white-on-white (W-W) perimetry. MET...

HEALTH POLITICAL BACKGROUND About 950,000 people are affected by glaucoma in Germany, about 50% of which are undiagnosed. The German Ophthalmological Society and the German Association of Ophthalmologists recommend a screening for glaucoma according to their guidelines. The Federal Joint Committee disapproved a glaucoma-screening program on expense of the compulsory health insurance in 2004. ...

PURPOSE The usual stimuli in static perimetry are white-light luminance increments. However, the specific visual detection mechanisms involved in perimetry are unknown because all classes of neural mechanisms are sensitive to spectrally broadband stimuli. The objective of this study was to determine the relative sensitivities of nonopponent and opponent detecting mechanisms under standard perim...

OBJECTIVE To determine if motion automated perimetry can identify early glaucomatous visual field defects in patients with suspected glaucoma (by disc), those with ocular hypertension, and those with primary open-angle glaucoma. METHODS Motion automated perimetry, a foveally centered motion test, and standard visual field tests were conducted on one randomly selected eye of normal patients (n...

AIM This study was designed to test the ability of a portable computer driven, head mounted visual field testing system to perform automated perimetry on patients at their bedside and to compare these results with the "gold standard" for bedside examinations, confrontation visual fields. METHODS The Kasha visual field system is a portable automated perimeter which utilises a virtual reality h...