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Title
Allowable movement of wavefront-guided contact lens corrections in normal and keratoconic eyes
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PurposeThe goal was to use SyntEyes modelling to estimate the allowable alignment error of wavefront-guided rigid contact lens corrections for a range of normal and keratoconic eye aberration structures to keep objectively measured visual image quality at or above average levels of well-corrected normal eyes. Secondary purposes included determining the required radial order of correction, whether increased radial order of the corrections further constrained the allowable alignment error and how alignment constraints vary with keratoconus severity.MethodsBuilding on previous work, 20 normal SyntEyes and 20 keratoconic SyntEyes were fitted with optimised wavefront-guided rigid contact lens corrections targeting between three and eight radial orders that drove visual image quality, as measured objectively by the visual Strehl ratio, to near 1 (best possible) over a 5-mm pupil for the aligned position. The resulting wavefront-guided contact lens was then allowed to translate up to +/- 1 mm in the x- and y-directions and rotate up +/- 15 degrees.ResultsAllowable alignment error changed as a function of the magnitude of aberration structure to be corrected, which depends on keratoconus severity. This alignment error varied only slightly with the radial order of correction above the fourth radial order. To return the keratoconic SyntEyes to average levels of visual image quality depended on maximum anterior corneal curvature (Kmax). Acceptable tolerances for misalignment that returned keratoconic visual image quality to average normal levels varied between 0.29 and 0.63 mm for translation and approximately +/- 6.5 degrees for rotation, depending on the magnitude of the aberration structure being corrected.ConclusionsAllowable alignment errors vary as a function of the aberration structure being corrected, the desired goal for visual image quality and as a function of keratoconus severity.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Ophthalmic and physiological optics. - Guildford
Publication
Hoboken : Wiley , 2024
ISSN
0275-5408
DOI
10.1111/OPO.13286
Volume/pages
44 :4 (2024) , p. 746-756
ISI
001169627800001
Pubmed ID
38389207
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The author-created version that incorporates referee comments and is the accepted for publication version Available from 22.08.2024
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Creation 29.03.2024
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