ArticleBiomedical optics express2024
Clarification on the understanding of contrast theory in relation to the article "ON and OFF receptive field processing in the presence of optical scattering": comment.
Article in Biomedical optics express, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Myopia control and modulation transfer functions for multisegment spectacle lenses.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2025Article
- Diffusion Optics Technology (DOT): A Myopia Control Spectacle Lens Based on Contrast Theory.Translational vision science & technology · 2024Review
- Optical Strategy Utilizing Contrast Modulation to Slow Myopia.Ophthalmology scienceReview
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Abstract
We are writing to address errors of misrepresentation in the article "ON and OFF receptive field processing in the presence of optical scattering" [Biomed. Opt. Express14, 2618 (2023)10.1364/BOE.489117]. In their investigation of predictions of "contrast theory" to explain the efficacy of diffusion optics technology (DOT), a myopia control lens design [Br. J. Ophthalmol.107, 1709 (2023)10.1136/bjo-2021-321005], Breher et al. incorrectly indicated that our contrast theory proposed that the association between cone opsin gene splicing defects and myopia was due to differential involvement in ON- and OFF-visual pathways. In addition, the Authors write that we have "hypothesized enhanced ON contrast sensitivity in myopes," but we predict the opposite.
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