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This comprehensive handbook offers a timely and up-to-date summary of visual optics, covering the fundamental principles, instrumentation, related methodologies, and clinical implications. Volume one provides an introduction to optical principles, ocular anatomy and physiology, and ophthalmic instruments, as well as a detailed treatment of the o
List of contents
Preface
- INTRODUCTION
1 History of Physiological Optics in the 20th Century
Gerald Westheimer
2 The Future of Visual Optics
David R. Williams
- FUNDAMENTALS
3 Geometrical Optics
Jim Schwiegerling
4 Wave Optics
Daniel Malacara
5 Aberrations in Optical Systems
José Sasián
6 Photometry
Yoshi Ohno
7 Characterization of Visual Stimuli using the Standard Display Model
Joyce E. Farrell, Haomiao Jiang, and Brian A. Wandell
8 Basic Ophthalmic Instruments
Walter Furlan
9 Instrumentation for Adaptive Optics
Chris Dainty
10 Anatomy and Embryology of the Eye: An Overview
Vivian Choh and Jacob G. Sivak
11 The Retina
Michael A. Freed
12 Visual System Architecture
Jonathan Winawer and Hiroshi Horiguchi
13 Visual Psychophysical Methods
Denis G. Pelli and Joshua A. Solomon
- OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE EYE
14 The Cornea
Michael Collins, Stephen Vincent, and Scott Read
15 The Lens
Fabrice Manns
16 Schematic Eyes
David A. Atchinson
17 Axes and Angles of the Eye
David A. Atchinson
18 The Retina and the Stiles-Crawford Effects
Brian Vohnsen
19 Refractive Errors
David A. Wilson
20 Monochromatic Aberrations
Susana Marcos, Pablo Pérez-Merino, and Carlos Dorronsoro
21 Peripheral Aberratio
About the author
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Pablo Artal received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University Complutense of Madrid, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institut d'Optique, Orsay, France and a senior researcher at the Instituto de Optica in Madrid. He is since 1994 full Professor of Optics at the University of Murcia, Spain. He spent several periods doing collaborative research in laboratories in Europe, Australia and USA. He is a fellow member of the OSA and ARVO. He received the prestigious 2013 Edwin H Land medal award in recognition of his scientific contributions to the advancement of diagnostic and correction alternatives in visual optics. He is the recipient of the exclusive "ERC advanced grant" in 2013. He has published more than 150 reviewed papers that received 5500 citations (h-index: 41), presented more than 150 invited talks in international meetings and around 120 seminars in different research institutions. He is also a co-inventor of 18 international patents in the field of Optics and Ophthalmology. He has pioneered a number of highly innovative advances in the methods for studying the optics of the eye and has contributed substantially to our understanding of the factors that limit human visual resolution.
Dr. Artal is a pioneer in exploring the human eye with new technologies and designed new ophthalmic corrections. Several of his proposed solutions and instrument are currently in use in the clinical practice. For example, he co-invented intraocular lenses correcting for the corneal spherical aberration that provides improved quality of vision to millions of patients over the world. Dr. Artal is the founder of Voptica SL a spin-off company developing the concept he invented of adaptive optics vision analyzers. He has been the mentor of many graduate and post-doctoral students. His personal science blog is followed by readers, mostly graduate studen
Summary
This comprehensive handbook offers a timely and up-to-date summary of visual optics, covering the fundamental principles, instrumentation, related methodologies, and clinical implications. Volume one provides an introduction to optical principles, ocular anatomy and physiology, and ophthalmic instruments, as well as a detailed treatment of the o
