Learning objectives
<br />to know fundamentals of optics as applied to the human eye and the lenses used to correct ametropias and diplopia.
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
Bibliography
Tasman, Jaeger, eds. Duane's Ophthalmology. LWW 2006.