Measurement of ocular anterior segment dimension and wavefront aberration simultaneously during accommodation

Abstract

In order to understand the relationship between accommodation and vision quality, a custom-built ultra-long scan depth spectral domain optical coherence tomography (UL-SDOCT) and a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor (HSWFS) were combined. The resolution and scan depth of UL-SDOCT are 6 mum and 15.6 mm, respectively, which allow for high-resolution imaging of the whole anterior segment. The HSWFS consists of a 32 x 32 microlens array, and is able to measure first 35th-order Zernike aberrations with (1/20)lambda measurement accuracy. The integrated system succeeded in measuring the ocular anterior segment dimension parameters and the ocular monochromatic high-order aberrations simultaneously under the conditions of nonaccommodative and accommodative stimuli. This may help understand the regulatory mechanism of image quality control in the human eye.