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Last-Minute Optics : A Concise Review of Optics, Refraction, and Contact Lenses / David G. Hunter, Michael J. Wan, and Constance West.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hunter, David G., 1957- author.
- Wan, Michael J., author.
- West, Constance E., 1958- author.
- Series:
- ClinicalKey.
- ClinicalKey
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eye--Refractive errors.
- Eye.
- Lenses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 154 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier Inc., 2025.
- System Details:
- text file html
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- Learn and review clinical optics and refraction with the newly revised edition of this popular resource! Last-Minute Optics, 3rd Edition, distills a vast amount of complex information into an easy-to-read, engaging text that makes the most of your limited study time. Now in full color for the first time, this clear and concise review manual features a unique question-and-answer format that allows for self-assessment and easy identification of areas where more study is needed. Uses a unique question-and-answer format with more than 225 questions and detailed answers that can be used to study and then test your understanding. Includes exam pearls throughout that highlight practical tips for studying and taking both oral and written exams. -- Publisher
- Contents:
- Refraction and reflection
- Vergence, lenses, objects, and images
- Mirrors
- Principles of light and lasers
- The model eye
- Visual acuity testing
- Refraction and optical dispensing
- Lens effectivity and vertex distance
- Accommodation, presbyopia, and bifocals
- Cylinders, crosses (axis and power), and spherocylindrical notation
- Astigmatism
- Aberrations, distortions, and irregularities
- Contact lenses
- Intraocular lenses
- Refractive surgery
- Prisms and diplopia
- Instruments
- Low vision
- Good people, bad optics: the dissatisfied patient
- Summary of important optics formulas.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Online resource; title from table of contents page (Elsevier ClinicalKey, viewed July 2, 2024).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780443224393
- 0443224390
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