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LEARNING OUTCOMES
The course aims to understand the visual principles of operation of the human eye and the basic
optical instruments Optometry for use in everyday practice in his professional career.
Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to:
• Understand the visual principles of operation of the human eye and refractive errors
• Understand the wavefront aberrations in the eye
• Understand the metrics of vision
• Understand the principles of color vision and colorimetry
SYLLABUS
- Evolution of the eye in nature
- Optics of the eye, cornea and crystalline lens, accommodation range, pupil.
- axes – angles of the eye
- Paraxonic schematic eyes
- Retina and its structure, receptive fields
- Low-order ametropias (defocus-astigmatism), spectacle lens magnification
- Wave aberrations of the eye and image quality at the retina.
- Visual metrics (Visual acuity – contrast sensitivity)
- Color vision – Colorimetry.