Handbook of Visual Optics offers an authoritative overview of encyclopedic knowledge in the field of physiological optics. It builds from fundamental concepts to the science and technology of instruments and practical procedures of vision correction, integrating expert knowledge from physics, medicine, biology, psychology, and engineering. The chapters comprehensively cover all aspects of modern study and practice, from optical principles and optics of the eye and retina to novel ophthalmic tools for imaging and visual testing, devices and techniques for visual correction, and the relationship between ocular optics and visual perception.

Handbook of Visual Optics offers an authoritative overview of encyclopedic knowledge in the field of physiological optics. It builds from fundamental concepts to the science and technology of instruments and practical procedures of vision correction, integrating expert knowledge from physics, medicine, biology, psychology, and engineering. The chapters comprehensively cover all aspects of modern study and practice, from optical principles and optics of the eye and retina to novel ophthalmic tools for imaging and visual testing, devices and techniques for visual correction, and the relationship between ocular optics and visual perception.

Handbook of Visual Optics offers an authoritative overview of encyclopedic knowledge in the field of physiological optics. It builds from fundamental concepts to the science and technology of instruments and practical procedures of vision correction, integrating expert knowledge from physics, medicine, biology, psychology, and engineering. The chapters comprehensively cover all aspects of modern study and practice, from optical principles and optics of the eye and retina to novel ophthalmic tools for imaging and visual testing, devices and techniques for visual correction, and the relationship between ocular optics and visual perception.

"Handbook of Visual Optics offers an authoritative overview of encyclopedic knowledge in the field of physiological optics. It builds from fundamental concepts to the science and technology of instruments and practical procedures of vision correction, integrating expert knowledge from physics, medicine, biology, psychology, and engineering. The chapters comprehensively cover all aspects of modern study and practice, from optical principles and optics of the eye and retina to novel ophthalmic tools for imaging and visual testing, devices and techniques for visual correction, and the relationship between ocular optics and visual perception."--Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Editor -- Contributors -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- 1. History of physiological optics in the twentieth century -- 2. Possibilities in physiological optics -- PART II: FUNDAMENTALS -- 3. Geometrical optics -- 4. Wave optics -- 5. Aberrations in optical systems -- 6. Photometry -- 7. Characterization of visual stimuli using the standard display model -- 8. Basic ophthalmic instruments -- 9. Instrumentation for adaptive optics -- 10. Anatomy and embryology of the eye: An overview -- 11. The retina -- 12. Visual system architecture -- 13. Visual psychophysical methods -- PART III: OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE EYE -- 14. The cornea -- 15. The lens -- 16. Schematic eyes -- 17. Axes and angles of the eye -- 18. The retina and the Stiles-Crawford effects -- 19. Refractive errors -- 20. Monochromatic aberrations -- 21. Peripheral aberrations -- 22. Customized eye models -- 23. Scattering, straylight, and glare -- 24. Accommodation mechanisms -- 25. Accommodation dynamics -- 26. Eye Movements -- 27. Aging and the eye's optics -- 28. Polarization properties -- Index