title: Fast scanning peripheral wave-front sensor for the human eye.
abstract: We designed and built a fast scanning peripheral Hartmann-Shack (HS) wave-front sensor to measure the off-axis wave-front aberrations in the human eye. The new instrument is capable of measuring the optical quality over the central 80° horizontal visual field in 1.8 seconds with an angular resolution of 1°. The subject has an open field of view without any moving elements in the line-of-sight and the head is kept in place by a head-chin rest. The same efficiency, reliability and measurement quality as the current static HS sensor were found but with much higher acquisition speed and comfort for the patients. This instrument has the potential to facilitate and improve future research on the peripheral optical quality of the eye in large groups of subjects.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Óptica, Universidad de Murcia, Campus Espinardo (Ed. CiOyN), Murcia, Spain. bart.jaeken@um.es
authors.forename: Bart
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jaeken
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lundström
authors.forename: Pablo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Artal
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003941:Diagnostic Techniques, Ophthalmological; D004867:Equipment Design; D005123:Eye; D006801:Humans; D009799:Ocular Physiological Phenomena; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D012030:Refractive Errors; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012984:Software; D014794:Visual Fields; D014796:Visual Perception