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PHYSIOPATHOLOGICAL OPTICS I
cod. 08261

Academic year 2009/10
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Malattie apparato visivo (MED/30)
Field
"scienze ortottiche e dell'assistenza oftalmologica"
Type of training activity
Characterising
4 hours
of face-to-face activities
0.5 credits
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Learning objectives

<br />to know fundamentals of optics as applied to the human eye and the lenses used to correct ametropias and diplopia.

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Course unit content

<br /><br /><br />Basis of physiological optics <br /><br />light, vergence, refraction index<br />prisms<br />lenses: spheres, cylinders,and their combination<br />prismatic effect of lenses<br /><br />the eye as an optical instrument<br />the schematic eye <br />emmetropia, myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism <br />defocussed images in ametropias<br />The eye and the optical correction <br /><br />eye and prisms <br />eye and lenses (eye-lens distance and actual power) <br />prismatic effect of lenses on the eye<br />Accomodation <br /><br />mechanisms and stimuli<br />accomodation and convergence<br />cycloplegia <br />cycloplegic drugs and their side-effects

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Bibliography

Tasman, Jaeger, eds. Duane's Ophthalmology. LWW 2006.

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