Describing ocular aberrations with wavefront vergence maps

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 194-205

  Nam, Jayoung ^a   Thibos, Larry N ^a   Iskander, D Robert ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ocular aberrations; Power vectors; Wavefront vergence; Zernike analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EYE REFRACTION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; KERATOMETRY; METHODOLOGY; OPTOMETRY; REFRACTION ERROR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTACLES;

CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; EYEGLASSES; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPTOMETRY; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS;

EID: 67849119107     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.2009.00358.x     Document Type: Article

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