Mar 29, 2024  
2020-2021 Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Graduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

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PHOP 7243 - Optics and the Eye

Credit Hours: 2.0
Lecture Contact Hours: 2   Lab Contact Hours: 0
Prerequisite: PHOP Vision Core 6241, 6242 and either 6243 OR (6143 + 6152) in Fall of first year PHOP graduate program in the College of Optometry.

An interactive course that introduces students to topics in visual optics, the correction of the eye optical errors and ocular imaging. Discussion of concepts related to visual image quality, accommodation and ideas for its restoration in presbyopic eyes, methods to minimize myopia progression and applications and limitations of technology for aberration measurement and correction in normal and highly aberrated eyes and for ocular imaging. The course will consist of student-led discussions of classic papers that are complimented by didactic lectures and laboratory exercises.



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