A New Definition of Refraction: Basics and Beyond Austin Roorda, Ph.D. Unversity of Houston College of Optometry
First use of Optics as Vision Aids 1000 AD reading stones from 1000 AD
1268 Roger Bacon discussed possibilities of magnification with lenses Roger Bacon 1284 Salvino D'Armate built the first spectacles which were used as reading glasses 1451 Nicholas of Cusa uses negative lenses to cure myopia (nearsightedness) Kepler 1604 Kepler describes the optics of near and far sightedness
1748: Benjamin Franklin invents the bifocal lens 1827: Sir George Biddel Airy invents spectacles for astigmatism
Retinoscopy
Phoropter
Autorefractor
Refraction Systems
Aberrometers VISX Wavescan Summit Autonomous Custom Cornea B&L Zywave Wavefront Sciences Complete Optical Analysis System TraceyTech Tracey 1
What is the Wavefront? converging beam = spherical wavefront parallel beam = plane wavefront
What is the Wavefront? ideal wavefront parallel beam = plane wavefront defocused wavefront
What is the Wavefront? parallel beam = plane wavefront aberrated beam = irregular wavefront ideal wavefront
What is the Wavefront? aberrated beam = irregular wavefront diverging beam = spherical wavefront ideal wavefront
What is the Wave Aberration? diverging beam = spherical wavefront wave aberration
Wavefront Aberration mm (right-left) mm (superior-inferior) Wave Aberration: Defocus
Wave Aberration: Astigmatism Wavefront Aberration mm (right-left) mm (superior-inferior)
Wave Aberration: Coma
Wave Aberration: All Terms
How Do We Interpret the Wave Aberrations?
Wave Aberration Surface Map
Wave Aberration Contour Map mm (right-left) mm (superior-inferior)
Breakdown of Zernike Terms Zernike term Coefficient value (microns) astig. defocus astig. trefoil coma trefoil spherical aberration 2 nd order 3 rd order 4 th order 5 th order
Root Mean Square astigmatism term defocus term astigmatism term trefoil term ……
Point Spread Function
Point Spread Function vs. Pupil Size pupil images followed by psfs for changing pupil size 1 mm2 mm3 mm4 mm 5 mm6 mm7 mm
Simulated Images 20/40 letters 20/20 letters
Strehl Ratio diffraction-limited PSF H dl H eye actual PSF
Modulation Transfer Function spatial frequency (c/deg) contrast Area under the MTF 20/2020/10
Applications for Aberrometry
Can we Build a Better Autorefractor? Zernike term Coefficient value (microns) astig. defocus astig. trefoil coma trefoil spherical aberration 2 nd order 3 rd order 4 th order 5 th order choose the spectacle correction that minimizes the second order Zernike terms
Can we Build a Better Autorefractor? perfect PSF choose the spectacle correction that maximizes the strehl ratio defocus/astigmatism
Can we Build a Better Autorefractor? Defocus (D) Area under MTF ( c/d) choose the spectacle correction that maximizes the area under the MTF
Can we Build a Better Autorefractor? Challenge –RMS, Strehl, and MTF area are not correlated Solution –population data (Rochester, Indiana) –early results suggest maximizing metrics like the Strehl ratio works best
Aberrometric Refraction conventional autorefractors are accurate to ~ 0.5 D aberrometric autorefractor should achieve ~ 0.1 D accuracy ** ** ± 0.25 D is an acceptable correction error
Diagnosis of High-order Aberrations
Post - RK Post - LASIK
Keratoconus