| Description |
xii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Sect. 1. Basic optical structure of the human eye. 1. The human eye: an overview. 2. Refracting components: cornea and lens. 3. The pupil. 4. Axes of the eye. 5. Paraxial schematic eyes -- Sect. 2. Image formation and refraction. 6. Image formation: the focused paraxial image. 7. Refractive anomalies. 8. Measuring refractive errors. 9. Image formation: the defocused paraxial image. 10. Some optical effects of ophthalmic lenses -- Sect. 3. Light and the eye. 11. Light and the eye: introduction. 12. Passage of light into the eye. 13. Light level at the retina. 14. Light interaction with the fundus -- Sect. 4. Aberrations and retinal image quality. 15. Monochromatic aberrations. 16. Monochromatic aberrations of schematic eyes. 17. Chromatic aberrations. 18. Retinal image quality -- Sect. 5. Miscellaneous. 19. Depth-of-field. 20. The aging eye. A1. Paraxial optics -- A2. Introduction to aberration theory -- A3. Schematic eyes -- A4. Calculation of PSF and OTF from aberrations of an optical system |
| Summary |
This text describes the optical structures and optical properties of the human eye. It is divided into five sections, covering topics such as basic optical structure of the human eye and image formation and refraction of the eye |
| Notes |
2002 Reprint |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Eye -- Anatomy & histology
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Eye -- Anatomy.
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Eye -- Refractive errors.
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Eye.
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Optics.
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Optometry.
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Physiological optics.
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Refractive errors
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Eye -- anatomy & histology.
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Optics and Photonics.
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Optics
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Refractive Errors.
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| Author |
Atchison, David A.
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| LC no. |
00025553 |
| ISBN |
0750637757 (paperback) |
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