Verification of the lack of correlation between age and longitudinal chromatic aberrations of the human eye from the visible to the infrared

Masashi Nakajima; Takahiro Hiraoka; Yoko Hirohara; Tetsuro Oshika; Toshifumi Mihashi

doi:10.1364/BOE.6.002676

Verification of the lack of correlation between age and longitudinal chromatic aberrations of the human eye from the visible to the infrared

Biomed Opt Express. 2015 Jun 25;6(7):2676-94. doi: 10.1364/BOE.6.002676. eCollection 2015 Jul 1.

Authors

Masashi Nakajima¹, Takahiro Hiraoka², Yoko Hirohara³, Tetsuro Oshika², Toshifumi Mihashi⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Information Processing, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, 226-8503, Japan ; Development Engineering Dept., Eye Care Company, TOPCON, Tokyo, 174-8580, Japan.
² Department of Ophthalmology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan.
³ Development Engineering Dept., Eye Care Company, TOPCON, Tokyo, 174-8580, Japan.
⁴ Department of Information Processing, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kanagawa, 226-8503, Japan.

Abstract

Several researchers studied the longitudinal chromatic aberration (LCA) of the human eye and observed that it does not change due to age. We measured the LCA of 45 subjects' normal right eyes at three distinct wavelengths (561, 690, and 840 nm) using a Hartmann-Shack wavefront aberrometer (HSWA) while consecutively switching between three light sources for wavefront sensing. We confirmed that the LCA of the human eye does not change due to age between 22 and 57 years.

Keywords: (170.4460) Ophthalmic optics and devices; (330.4875) Optics of physiological systems; (330.5370) Physiological optics; (330.7325) Visual optics, metrology; (330.7326) Visual optics, modeling.