Optics of aberroscopy and super vision.
This paper (1) reviews the fundamental limits to visual performance imposed by optical imaging and photoreceptor sampling to determine the limits to the potential gains offered by ideal corrections; (2) examines the predicted losses in vision induced by chromatic aberration, phase shifts, typical ocular aberrations, and the gains possible by correcting the monochromatic aberrations of the eye; (3) discusses the principles of aberration measurement in the eye; and (4) presents methods for measuring and classifying monochromatic aberrations of the eye.
Applegate
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Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78284-06230, USA. applegate@uthscsa.edu
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Hilmantel
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D005123:Eye / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D006801:Humans; D008027:Light; D009799:Ocular Physiological Phenomena; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*