title: Changes in through-focus spatial visual performance with adaptive optics correction of monochromatic aberrations.
abstract: We determined the influence of adaptive optics correction on through-focus illiterate-E visual acuity and through-focus contrast sensitivity under monochromatic conditions. In two subjects, adaptive optics improved high and low (12%) contrast in-focus visual acuity by 0.1 to 0.15logMAR, but resulted in more rapid and more symmetrical deterioration in visual acuity away from in-focus. In one subject, adaptive optics improved in-focus contrast sensitivity and resulted in more symmetrical and greater loss of contrast sensitivity about the peak sensitivity because of correction of higher-order aberrations. The results show that full correction of higher-order aberrations may worsen spatial visual performance in the presence of some defocus.
authors.affiliation: School of Optometry and Institute of Health & Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, 60 Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove, Qld 4059, Australia.
authors.forename: Huanqing
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Atchison
authors.forename: Benjamin J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Birt
mesh_terms: D000065:Accommodation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology; D003261:Contact Lenses; D015350:Contrast Sensitivity / Q000502:physiology; D003867:Depth Perception / Q000502:physiology; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D011601:Psychophysics; D012030:Refractive Errors; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology*