We are a group of scientists from around the world who participate in both basic and clinical studies designed to improve the visual quality of patients who are experiencing a variety of optical imperfections. Our diverse team has ongoing collaborations with colleagues in Spain, England, China as well as other labs at Indiana University.
CORL has helped design and evaluate many of the contact lenses and contact lens care products on the market today, helping millions of people around the world see.
We are always testing the newest ideas and products that may be available to you as a consumer in the future. To do this, however, we need your help by providing your feedback, such as how well you see, how comfortable you are, etc.
CORL performs cutting-edge translational clinical optics research. The goal of this research is to improve the vision and clinical care of patients by achieving the following aims:
- Evaluate and predict the success of refractive interventions and visual corrections
- Develop outcome measures to enhance a clinician’s ability to treat patients and the researchers ability to quantify improvements in care and determine causes for failures
- Improve ocular diagnostics for the detection, diagnosis, and correction of corneal disease
- Generate improvements in refractive interventions and visual corrections through controlled optical manipulations
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The lecture is prompted by a request for a deeper understanding of some of the vector algebra that is the foundation of the textbook method. That method is explained for optometric audiences in the attached paper, which will give you a sense of the “flavor” of the topic. Might not suit all tastes, but we must all learn to eat the bitter with the sweet 🙂 The lecture focuses on the geometrical properties of wavefronts that are used to compute the geometrical point-spread function. This is a very different problem from the more familiar Fourier optics calculation of the PSF based on physical optics. The math is actually easier for the geometrical optics method, but requires some familiarity with vector algebra concepts.
