April 2014
Volume 55, Issue 13
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   April 2014
Evaluation of a low-cost wavefront aberrometer for measuring refractive errors
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Eduardo Lage
    Madrid-MIT M+Vision Consortium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  • Fuensanta Ascension Vera-Diaz
    New England College of Optometry, Boston, MA
  • Shivang R Dave
    Madrid-MIT M+Vision Consortium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  • Daryl Lim
    Madrid-MIT M+Vision Consortium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  • Carlos Dorronsoro
    Instituto de Óptica “Daza de Valdés”, ”, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
  • Susana Marcos
    New England College of Optometry, Boston, MA
  • Frank Thorn
    New England College of Optometry, Boston, MA
  • Nicholas J Durr
    Madrid-MIT M+Vision Consortium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships Eduardo Lage, MIT (P); Fuensanta Vera-Diaz, None; Shivang Dave, MIT (P); Daryl Lim, MIT (P); Carlos Dorronsoro, MIT (P); Susana Marcos, MIT (P); Frank Thorn, None; Nicholas Durr, MIT (P)
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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science April 2014, Vol.55, 2718. doi:
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      Eduardo Lage, Fuensanta Ascension Vera-Diaz, Shivang R Dave, Daryl Lim, Carlos Dorronsoro, Susana Marcos, Frank Thorn, Nicholas J Durr; Evaluation of a low-cost wavefront aberrometer for measuring refractive errors. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2014;55(13):2718.

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Abstract

Purpose: To evaluate the performance of a low-cost wavefront aberrometer in measuring refractive errors.

Methods: A double-blind study was conducted to evaluate accuracy of a prototype low-cost wavefront aberrometer in obtaining a refractive prescription. The prototype was compared with a Grand Seiko WR-5100K open-field autorefractor and binocular subjective refraction. The prototype is a handheld, lightweight, open-view, and easy-to-use device that quickly provides a refractive prescription without requiring pupil dilation. The prototype includes a Hartmann-Shack lenslet array with a low-cost CMOS image sensor for wavefront sensing, and an 850 nm laser diode for illumination (maximum corneal power of 250 μW). All the functional components of the device are off-the-shelf parts that cost less than $1,000 in total. The subjects held and looked through the prototype while a 30-second video of spot diagrams was captured. The spot diagrams were processed using a custom algorithm to calculate Zernike coefficients and estimate a prescription. Refractions were obtained for 43 subjects (mean age 26.2 ± 9.5 years) with each method. Eight of these subjects were used for validation and development of the prototype algorithm, and the remaining 35 were used for the double-blind test.

Results: For the 35 subjects, the range of spherical equivalent (SE) refractive error measured by subjective refraction was -6.50 to +3.63 D. The correlations between the SE measured objectively and subjectively were R = 0.96 for the prototype and R = 0.97 for the autorefractor. The average SE error of the prototype compared to subjective refraction was 0.54 ± 0.54 D, versus 0.40 ± 0.46 D for the autorefractor. The average errors of the J0 and J45 power vectors were 0.16 ± 0.22 D and 0.11 ± 0.11 D for the prototype and 0.13 ± 0.09 D and 0.08 ± 0.07 D for the autorefractor compared to subjective refraction.

Conclusions: The prototype wavefront aberrometer performed similarly to a high-end open-field commercial autorefractor in objective refraction when using subjective refraction as the gold standard. The prototype performed worst on subjects with anisometropia (n=2), likely due to cross-coupled accommodation. Future improvements in the prototype algorithm can improve its accuracy in measuring refractive errors. An easy-to-use and low-cost autorefractor, such as the one evaluated here, may be beneficial for improving eye care in low-resource settings.

Keywords: 676 refraction • 626 aberrations • 465 clinical (human) or epidemiologic studies: systems/equipment/techniques  
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