title: Optics of aberroscopy and super vision.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78284-06230, USA. applegate@uthscsa.edu
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Applegate
authors.forename: L N
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Thibos
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Hilmantel
mesh_terms: D005123:Eye / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D006801:Humans; D008027:Light; D009799:Ocular Physiological Phenomena; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*