Advances in Diagnostic Visual Optics: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium, Tucson, Arizona, October 23–25, 1982 (Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 41)

Opening Remarks of the President, 2nd ISVO, Professor G.M. Breinin, M.D. The study of visual processes is surely unique as a clinical specialty, in­ corporating the disciplines of physics, chemistry, physiology, and psycho­ logy. Diagnosing and correcting disorders of the visual system in these last two decades of the 20th century has brought all of us into close prox­ imity with computer sciences, laser technology, the marvels of electronic microcircuitry, and the impressive developments in optical materials. Dur­ ing the course of this meeting we shall be hearing about how these different technologies can interact with one another, and we shall discover that such interaction may produce new diagnostic tools and new optical devices. We shall also learn that the optical qualities of the eye change during life, producing subtle and complex alterations in vision. On behalf of the members and organizing committee of the American Commit­ tee on Optics and Visual Physiology and our co-sponsoring organization, the Optical Society of America, I welcome you to this second symposium on visual optics. The first symposium took place in Japan in 1978 and, like the pres­ ent one, was a satellite meeting of the International Congress of Ophthal­ mology. The third symposium in this series will take place in Italy in 1986 as part of the next session of the International Congress of Ophthalmology. Front Matter....Pages I-IX Front Matter....Pages 1-1 On the Anatomy of Ocular Optics....Pages 2-11 Wide-Angle Optical Model of the Eye....Pages 12-21 Measurement of Visual Axis Using a Laser Beam....Pages 22-29 A Study of the Effects of Bleaching on the Width and Index of Refraction on Goldfish Cone Outer Segments....Pages 30-34 Front Matter....Pages 35-35 The Design of an Open View Autorefractometer....Pages 36-42 A Semi-Automatic Refractometer with a TV Monitor Allowing One Position Measures of Ametropia....Pages 43-51 A New Microprocessor-Assisted Objective Refractor....Pages 52-60 Direct Recording of Accommodative Response versus Accomodative Stimulus....Pages 61-68 Lag of Accommodation....Pages 69-74 The Effects of Various Eye Diseases on the Measurement of Refractive Error Using the Nikon Autorefractometer....Pages 75-81 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 A Distortion-Free Cross-Cylinder System for Automated Subjective Refraction....Pages 84-88 Enhancing the Efficiency of Cross-Cylinder Astigmatism Testing....Pages 89-97 Parameters of the Change in Clinical Refractive Error in Young Myopes....Pages 98-105 Deformed Aspheric Ophthalmic Lenses....Pages 106-117 A New Sphero-Cylinder Trial Lens for Aphakic Correction and Its Clinical Application....Pages 118-123 Corneal Specular Microscopy Using a Contact Lens....Pages 124-130 Calculatinged Tear Volumes Under Thin Hydrogel Contact Lenses....Pages 131-136 Front Matter....Pages 137-137 An Overview of the Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope....Pages 138-140 Quantification of the Shape and Color of the Optic Nerve Head....Pages 141-149 Front Matter....Pages 151-151 Electrical Soundings in the Visual Current....Pages 152-164 Front Matter....Pages 151-151 Application of Laser Speckle Patterns to Visual Evoked Potentials....Pages 165-172 An Automatic Intermittent Light Stimulator to Record Flicker Persceptive Thresholds in Patients with Retinal Disease....Pages 173-179 Superacuity in the Spared Eyes of Monocular Deprivation Amblyopes: Visual Evoked Response Measurements....Pages 180-186 Pupillary Escape and Visual Fatigue Phenomena in Optic Nerve Disease....Pages 187-195 Front Matter....Pages 197-197 Recent Developments in Clinical Contrast Sensitivity Testing....Pages 198-206 Contrast Sensitivity Testing in Patients with Juvenile Diabetes....Pages 207-210 The Effect of CAM Treatment and Occlusion Therapy on Contrast Sensitivity Function in Amblyopia....Pages 211-217 A Psychophysical Technique for Testing Explanations of Sensitivity Loss Due to Retinal Disease....Pages 218-224 Dynamics of Visual Adaptation are Altered in Vascular Disease....Pages 225-231 Influence of Variable-Sized Backgrounds on a Hyperacuity Threshold....Pages 232-238 Assessment of Temporal Resolution in Multiple Sclerosis by Multi-Flash Campimetry....Pages 239-246 Back Matter....Pages 247-250 Opening Remarks of the President, 2nd ISVO, Professor G.M. Breinin, M.D. The study of visual processes is surely unique as a clinical specialty, inƯ corporationg the disciplines of physics, chemistry, physiology, and psychoƯ logy. Diagnosing and correcting disorders of the visual system in these last two decades of the 20th century has brought all of us into close proxƯ imity with computer sciences, laser technology, the marvels of electronic microcircuitry, and the impressive developments in optical materials. DurƯ ing the course of this meeting we shall be hearing about how these different technologies can interact with one another, and we shall discover that such interaction may produce new diagnostic tools and new optical devices. We shall also learn that the optical qualities of the eye change during life, producing subtle and complex alterations in vision. On behalf of the members and organizing committee of the American CommitƯ tee on Optics and Visual Physiology and our co-sponsoring organization, the Optical Society of America, I welcome you to this second symposium on visual optics. The first symposium took place in Japan in 1978 and, like the presƯ ent one, was a satellite meeting of the International Congress of OphthalƯ mology. The third symposium in this series will take place in Italy in 1986 as part of the next session of the International Congress of Ophthalmology