ArticleBMC ophthalmology2020
How does the world appear to patients with multifocal intraocular lenses?: a mobile model eye experiment.
Article in BMC ophthalmology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- A review of angle kappa and multifocal intraocular lenses and their effect on visual outcomes.Acta ophthalmologica · 2026Review
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- Basic Optics Underlying Current Intraocular Lenses.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Screening of positive dysphotopsia before multifocal intraocular lens implantation.Indian journal of ophthalmology · 2024Article
- Influence of a multifocal intraocular lens centration and eye angles on light distortion and ocular scatter index.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2023Article
- Comparative Analysis of Optical Quality of Monofocal, Enhanced Monofocal, Multifocal, and Extended Depth of Focus Intraocular Lenses: A Mobile Model Eye Study.Translational vision science & technology · 2023Article
- A Novel Intraocular Lens Simulator that Allows Patients to Experience the World Through Multifocal Intraocular Lenses Before Surgeries.Translational vision science & technology · 2022Article
- Development of a novel multifocal lens using a polarization directed flat lens: possible candidate for a multifocal intraocular lens.BMC ophthalmology · 2021Article
- Effect of the kappa angle on depth of focus after implantation of the TECNIS Symfony intraocular lens.International ophthalmology · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundTo show how the world appear to patients with multifocal intraocular lens (IOL) using a novel mobile model eye.
methodsThe mobile model eye was composed of an artificial cornea, IOL, IOL chamber, and a camera. A monofocal IOL (Tecnis monofocal IOL) and two diffractive multifocal IOL (ReSTOR, Tecnis multifocal IOL) were used in the study. We went outside to take a picture of the scenery. At night, we stood on a road and took pictures to see how the traffic lights and headlights of cars looked. For an indoor analysis, we approached the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) chart to the model eye from a distance of 95 cm to check the multifocal function of the lenses. In the car, we took pictures of the street and a cell phone in turn to check the multifocal function of the lenses.
resultsTwo multifocal IOLs showed definite multifocal function. Far objects appeared either similarly clear or slightly hazier (depending on the IOL model) than those with the monofocal IOL. In the night vision, there was a mild or severe halo around light sources compared to those with the monofocal IOL.
conclusionWe believe that this mobile model eye can be used to evaluate how the real world appear to a patient with a multifocal IOL, to explain multifocal function of the IOLs, and possible complications in the patients, before performing a surgery.
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