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ReviewPolymers2022

Advanced Optical Wavefront Technologies to Improve Patient Quality of Vision and Meet Clinical Requests.

Martina Vacalebre, Renato Frison, Carmelo Corsaro, Fortunato Neri, Sabrina Conoci, Elena Anastasi, Maria Cristina Curatolo, Enza Fazio

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Review in Polymers, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Martina VacalebreDipartimento di Scienze Matematiche ed Informatiche, Scienze Fisiche e Scienze della Terra (MIFT), Università di Messina, V.le Ferdinando Stagno d'Alcontres 31, 98166 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9199-3850
Renato FrisonOptical Consultant SIFI SpA, 95025 Aci Sant'Antonio (CT), Italy.
Carmelo CorsaroDipartimento di Scienze Matematiche ed Informatiche, Scienze Fisiche e Scienze della Terra (MIFT), Università di Messina, V.le Ferdinando Stagno d'Alcontres 31, 98166 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1497-8750
Fortunato NeriDipartimento di Scienze Matematiche ed Informatiche, Scienze Fisiche e Scienze della Terra (MIFT), Università di Messina, V.le Ferdinando Stagno d'Alcontres 31, 98166 Messina, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9130-9972
Sabrina ConociDipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Biologiche, Farmalogiche ed Ambientali (CHIBIOFARAM), Università di Messina, V.le Ferdinando Stagno d'Alcontres 31, 98166 Messina, Italy.
Elena AnastasiInnovation and Medical Science, SIFI SpA, 95025 Aci Sant'Antonio (CT), Italy.
Maria Cristina CuratoloInnovation and Medical Science, SIFI SpA, 95025 Aci Sant'Antonio (CT), Italy.
Enza FazioDipartimento di Scienze Matematiche ed Informatiche, Scienze Fisiche e Scienze della Terra (MIFT), Università di Messina, V.le Ferdinando Stagno d'Alcontres 31, 98166 Messina, Italy.
University of Messina · ITOptica · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adaptive optics (AO) is employed for the continuous measurement and correction of ocular aberrations. Human eye refractive errors (lower-order aberrations such as myopia and astigmatism) are corrected with contact lenses and excimer laser surgery. Under twilight vision conditions, when the pupil of the human eye dilates to 5-7 mm in diameter, higher-order aberrations affect the visual acuity. The combined use of wavefront (WF) technology and AO systems allows the pre-operative evaluation of refractive surgical procedures to compensate for the higher-order optical aberrations of the human eye, guiding the surgeon in choosing the procedure parameters. Here, we report a brief history of AO, starting from the description of the Shack-Hartmann method, which allowed the first in vivo measurement of the eye's wave aberration, the wavefront sensing technologies (WSTs), and their principles. Then, the limitations of the ocular wavefront ascribed to the IOL polymeric materials and design, as well as future perspectives on improving patient vision quality and meeting clinical requests, are described.

Indexed as

adaptive sensorsophthalmologyoptical aberrationsShack–Hartmann sensorwavefront-guided laser refractive surgerywavefront sensing

Identifiers

PMID36501713
PMCPMC9741482
OpenAlexW4311282556

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