This paper addresses the concept, measurement and applications of wave aberrations. The ocular optics is not perfect. Apart from conventional low order aberrations (such as defocus and astigmatism) retinal images are degraded by other high order aberrations. Aberrometers typically measure ray deviations at the retinal plane, as a function of pupil position, i.e. local derivatives of the wave ab...

OBJECTIVE To compare the results of laser in situ keratomileusis for myopia using WaveLight(®) Allegretto Wave(®) Eye-Q(®) and Technolas(®) 217z excimer lasers. METHOD A retrospective, comparative case series of 442 eyes matched for age and myopia: half each were treated with Allegretto's wavefront-optimized algorithm and Technolas PlanoScan. Outcome measures were postoperative mean logarithm...

OBJECTIVE To determine mean change induced in root mean square value of higher order aberrations in myopic patients undergoing wavefront optimized laser assisted in situ keratomileusis. METHODS This quasi experimental study was conducted at Armed Forces Institute of Ophthalmology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan from Jan 2014 to Dec 2014. Sixty eyes of 35 myopic patients were included in the study. All ...

A DAPTIVE OPTICS WAS FIRST SUGGESTED IN 1953 BY astronomer Horace Babcock to remove the blurring effects of turbulence in the atmosphere on telescopic images of stars.1 The U.S. Defense Department later invested heavily in the development of adaptive optics technology to improve the effectiveness of laser weapons as part of its Star Wars Program. This information would eventually allow vision s...

PURPOSE Despite the proliferation of wavefront sensors to characterize the optical quality of individual eyes, there is not yet an accurate way to determine from a wave aberration how severely it will impact the patient's vision. Some of the most commonly used metrics, such as RMS wavefront error and the Strehl ratio, predict subjective image quality poorly. Our goal is to establish a better me...

PURPOSE To compare the effects of biaxial microincision cataract surgery (B-MICS) and microcoaxial cataract surgery (C-MICS) techniques on corneal optical quality. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this prospective study, 40 eyes underwent B-MICS and 40 eyes C-MICS. Corneal aberrations were derived from conversion of the corneal elevation profile into corneal wavefront data with 6.0  mm aperture diame...

PURPOSE To compare the effect of wavefront-guided and wavefront-optimized LASIK using different laser platforms on subjective quality of vision. METHODS The dominant eyes of 55 participants with myopia were randomized to receive either wavefront-guided LASIK treatment by the VISX Star S4 IR Custom-Vue excimer laser system (Abbott Medical Optics, Inc., Santa Clara, CA) or wavefront-optimized t...

PURPOSE To show how an incorrect manifest astigmatism axis can cause an abnormal induced astigmatism on a new axis. PATIENTS AND METHODS Four eyes of three patients were treated primarily with WaveLight® EX500 wavefront optimized (WFO) treatments for astigmatism. All four eyes needed enhancements and were analyzed retrospectively via WaveLight® Contoura to determine the reason for the incorre...

Personalized eye modeling of normal and diseased eye conditions is attractive due to the recent availability of detailed ocular measurements in clinic environments and the promise of its medical and industrial applications. In the customized modeling, the optical properties of the crystalline lens including the gradient refractive index, the lens bio-geometry and orientation are typically assig...