Description
Book SynopsisWritten to help trainee ophthalmologists, this textbook is now the recognised text on optics for the examinations of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the Royal Surgical Colleges. It approaches the subject from first principles and assumes no previous knowledge of optics.
Trade Review“An essential revision text for the optics component of the FRCOphth and MRCOphth.” “Helpful both in making the text more comprehensive as a reference text alone and also as an invaluable revision aid for the part two MRCOphth”
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Table of ContentsPreface to the Third Edition.
Acknowledgements.
1. Properties of Light and Visual Function.
2. Reflection of Light.
3. Refraction of Light.
4. Prisms.
5. Spherical Lenses.
6. Astigmatic Lenses.
7. Optical Prescriptions, Spectacle Lenses.
8. Aberrations of Optical Systems Including the Eye.
9. Refraction by the Eye.
10. Optics of Ametropia.
11. Presbyopia.
12. Contact Lenses.
13. Optics of Low Vision Aids.
14. Instruments.
15. Lasers.
16. Practical Clinical Refraction.
17. Refractive Surgery.
Appendix I.
Appendix II.
Index.
