2020–2021 BCSC Basic and Clinical Science Course™
3 Clinical Optics
Chapter 3: Optics of the Human Eye
Highlights
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model eyes: Gullstrand model eye, reduced schematic (model) eye
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important axes: principal line of vision, pupillary axis, visual axis, optical axis
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important angles: angle alpha (α), angle kappa (κ)
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measuring vision: visual acuity, contrast sensitivity
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refractive errors: monocular, binocular
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accommodation and presbyopia
Excerpted from BCSC 2020-2021 series : Section 3 - Clinical Optics. For more information and to purchase the entire series, please visit https://www.aao.org/bcsc.