On-Eye Evaluation of Optical Performance of Rigid and Soft Contact Lenses
Open Access
- 1 December 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Optometry and Vision Science
- Vol. 78 (12), 872-880
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00006324-200112000-00009
Abstract
A Shack-Hartmann aberrometer was used to assess the optical performances of eyes corrected with rigid or soft contact lenses compared with spectacles. Metrics of optical quality derived from the measured wave aberrations were consistent with the subjective rating of visual clarity by subjects. Optical aberration analysis illustrated the differences in aberration structures of eyes wearing different optical corrections. For our subjects, correction with a rigid gas-permeable lens yielded significantly better optical quality than did the soft contact lens or spectacle lens. This was due to a reduction in the eye's asymmetric (odd-order) aberrations and a reduction in the amount of the eye's positive spherical aberration. These observations can be explained by theoretical calculations of the aberrations of the eye plus lens optical system. We conclude that aberrometry provides a better understanding of the optical effects of contact lenses in situ and could be useful for optimizing future designs of contact lenses.Keywords
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