Current Study

Visual Optics Institute

1) ABERRATIONS OF EYES IN NORMAL AND CLINICAL POPULATIONS

Description: This is a 5-year longitudinal study of 150+ patients who are over the age of 50 with cataract to:

1. Test the ability of our new metrics of retinal image quality to detect change in optical disease.

2. Directly testing the organizing hypothesis that a change in retinal image quality is predictive of future

vision loss in optical disease.

3. Improve the power of newly developed single-valued wave aberration metrics to predict a change in

visual performance by adding measurements of forward scatter.

4. Use physical and computer models to test the measurement assumptions of our new analysis of

forward scatter and explore ways to improve the speed, efficiency and accuracy of our analysis.

Duration: 5 years (Longitudinal Study)

Enrollment Status: No new enrollment

Contact: Lnguyen@optometry.uh.edu

(713) 743.1791

2) CUSTOM WAVEFRONT-GUIDED SOFT CONTACT LENSES FOR KERATOCONUS

Description: This project aims to develop custom wavefront-guided soft contact lenses for the keratoconic eye.

Duration: approximately 6 office visits of 1 hour each.

Enrollment Status: contact investigator for details.

Contact: Jmarsack@optometry.uh.edu

(713)743.1791