Bookby Gunnar Schmidtmann.
Summary: This book provides a concise and user-friendly guide to the most common and important numbers, laws and formulas in clinical vision science. Clinicians and trainees in ophthalmology, optometry, orthoptics, and ophthalmic dispensing, who are seeking an easy-to-use lab coat pocket size resource, will find this book to be an essential reference in clinical practice. Clinical Vision Science: A Concise Guide to Numbers, Laws, and Formulas is clearly structured into basics, physical optics, visual optics and ophthalmic lenses, optical instruments, photometry, visual perception, clinical procedures, and anatomy & binocular vision. Each chapter contains a range of tables, formulas, large illustrations and flow charts to allow readers to quickly and accurately find key facts for each type of examination procedure.
Contents:
Basics
Trigonometry
Angular Measures
Degree to Radians
Radians to Degree
The Metric System
International System of Units
Important Units
Physical Optics
Nature of Light
Reflection
Reflection on plane surfaces
Reflection on curved surfaces
Important equations
Refraction
Refractive Index
Snells Law
Total Internal Reflection
Refraction by Prisms
Refraction on curved surfaces
Important equations
Step along method
The power of a lens system
Thick Lenses
Photometry
Flat angles
Solid angles
Inverse Square Law
Cosine Law
Optical Instruments
Camera
Magnification
The Simple Magnifier
Entrance and Exit Pupils
Visual Optics & Ophthalmic Lenses
Calculating the Sag
Lens meter equation
Toric Transposition
Astigmatism & Cylindrical Lenses
Toric Lenses
Oblique Crossed Cylinders
Accommodation & Vergence
Accommodation
Vergence
Prisms
Prism Dioptre
Prism Notation
Prentice Rule
The prismatic effect of a sphero-cylindrical lens
Ophthalmic Lenses
Types of Lenses
Lens Materials
Dispersion and Abbe Number
Transverse Chromatic Aberration
Eye Models
Gullstrands Reduced Schematic Eye
Gullstrands Simplified Schematic Eye
Gullstrands Exact Schematic Eye
Retinal Blur Circle
Spectacle Magnification
Visual Perception
Visual Acuity
Contrast
Weber Contrast
Michelson Contrast
Root Mean Square (RMS) Contrast
Sensation & Perception
Webers Law
Fechners Law
Stevens Power Law
Riccos Law
Blochs Law
Pipers Law
Ocular Anatomy
The Anatomy of the Orbit
The Anatomy of the Eye
The external Eye & Eye Muscles
The internal Eye & Retina
Ocular Diseases & Ocular Pharmacology
Summary of Common Ocular Diseases
List of Common Drugs, Dosages, Indications & Contraindications
Clinical Procedures
Direct Ophthalmoscopy
Retinoscopy
Subjective Refrac tion
Fan & Block
Jackson Cross Cylinder Technique
Near Vision & Accommodation
Distance and Near Acuity Chart
Binocular Vision & Orthoptics
Definitions: Eso, Exo, Hypo, Hyper
Phoria vs Tropia
Extraocular Muscles
Directions of maximal action for Extrocular Muscles
Primary and secondary actions
Adduction
Abduction
Incyclo
Excyclo
Herings Law
Sherringtons Law
Sheards Criterion
Cranial Nerves and Eye Muscles
Cover-Uncover & Alternate Cover Test
Hess Chart interpretation
Difference between Concomitance and Incomitance
Order of Muscle Sequelae
Assessment of Motor Fusion
Prism Corrections
Crossed and Uncrossed Diplopia
Bielschowsky Head Tilt Test
Diagnostic Techniques
Slit Lamp Biomicroscopy
Diffuse Illumination
Sclerotic Scatter
Direct Illumination
Indirect Illumination
Retro Illumination
Specular Reflection
Mire Reverse
Van Hericks Technique
Gonioscopy
Keratometry
Tonometry
Perimetry
Contact Lenses
Keratometry and Contact lenses
Contact Lens Materials
Calculations
Base Curve
Diameter
Back Vertex Power
Fitting & Assessment of Contact Lenses
Low Vision
Assessment of Visual Function
Assessment of Function Vision
Magnification
Field of View.