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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.

Elsevier ScienceDirect eBook - Clinical Medicine and Surgery 2024 Available online

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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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