Wavefront technology promises to change the way vision care will be conducted. Wavefront-sensing optometers provide instant, accurate measurement of the total wave aberration of the eye, and that one measurement contains all the information needed for refractive vision diagnosis and refractive vision correction. Wavefront optometers are now being used to create individualized laser vision correction based, not on the coventional sphero-cylindrical correction, but rather on the total wavefront errors in patients' eyes. Comprehensive vision diagnosis based on the wave aberration and the image quality derived from it is far different from the conventional test of visual acuity. Wavefront technology has made it possible to image microscopic features as small as the photoreceptors and to improve resolution of retinal imaging techniques for early diagnosis of retinal diseases. This article is a review covering the hsitory and progress being made in the development of the wavefront technologies.
In this paper an extension of the principle of the Hartmann-Shack
wavefront sensor to the neasureirtent of the sphericity of a specular
reflection surface is presented. The features of this widely usable
system are discussed by means of the application of this approach
to the modeling of surface aberrations of the cornea of the eye.
The results of measurements performed with a first prototype on a
set of stainless steel calibration spheres of different radii are
shown.
This paper presents the measurement of the wave aberrations of human eyes with a
Hartmann-Shack Sensor (HSS), used in a system for active optical depth resolution improvement of
the Laser Tomographic Scanner(LTS). A least-squares algorithm of modal wavefront estimation
from the tested derivatives is described. The noise propagation of this algorithm is examined. And
the experimental results of tested living eyes are presented.
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