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Binocular visual performance and summation after correcting higher order aberrations

Although the ocular higher order aberrations degrade the retinal image substantially, most studies have investigated their effect on vision only under monocular conditions. Here, we have investigated the impact of binocular higher order aberration correction on visual performance and binocular summa...

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Autores principales: Sabesan, Ramkumar, Zheleznyak, Len, Yoon, Geunyoung
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Optical Society of America 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3521316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23243568
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/BOE.3.003176
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author Sabesan, Ramkumar
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description Although the ocular higher order aberrations degrade the retinal image substantially, most studies have investigated their effect on vision only under monocular conditions. Here, we have investigated the impact of binocular higher order aberration correction on visual performance and binocular summation by constructing a binocular adaptive optics (AO) vision simulator. Binocular monochromatic aberration correction using AO improved visual acuity and contrast sensitivity significantly. The improvement however, differed from that achieved under monocular viewing. At high spatial frequency (24 c/deg), the monocular benefit in contrast sensitivity was significantly larger than the benefit achieved binocularly. In addition, binocular summation for higher spatial frequencies was the largest in the presence of subject’s native higher order aberrations and was reduced when these aberrations were corrected. This study thus demonstrates the vast potential of binocular AO vision testing in understanding the impact of ocular optics on habitual binocular vision.
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spelling pubmed-35213162012-12-14 Binocular visual performance and summation after correcting higher order aberrations Sabesan, Ramkumar Zheleznyak, Len Yoon, Geunyoung Biomed Opt Express Vision and Visual Optics Although the ocular higher order aberrations degrade the retinal image substantially, most studies have investigated their effect on vision only under monocular conditions. Here, we have investigated the impact of binocular higher order aberration correction on visual performance and binocular summation by constructing a binocular adaptive optics (AO) vision simulator. Binocular monochromatic aberration correction using AO improved visual acuity and contrast sensitivity significantly. The improvement however, differed from that achieved under monocular viewing. At high spatial frequency (24 c/deg), the monocular benefit in contrast sensitivity was significantly larger than the benefit achieved binocularly. In addition, binocular summation for higher spatial frequencies was the largest in the presence of subject’s native higher order aberrations and was reduced when these aberrations were corrected. This study thus demonstrates the vast potential of binocular AO vision testing in understanding the impact of ocular optics on habitual binocular vision. Optical Society of America 2012-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3521316/ /pubmed/23243568 http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/BOE.3.003176 Text en ©2012 Optical Society of America http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License, which permits download and redistribution, provided that the original work is properly cited. This license restricts the article from being modified or used commercially.
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Binocular visual performance and summation after correcting higher order aberrations
title Binocular visual performance and summation after correcting higher order aberrations
title_full Binocular visual performance and summation after correcting higher order aberrations
title_fullStr Binocular visual performance and summation after correcting higher order aberrations
title_full_unstemmed Binocular visual performance and summation after correcting higher order aberrations
title_short Binocular visual performance and summation after correcting higher order aberrations
title_sort binocular visual performance and summation after correcting higher order aberrations
topic Vision and Visual Optics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3521316/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23243568
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