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During sub-aperture tool polishing of glass optics, mid-spatial surface ripples are generated because of material removal non-uniformities during tool linear translation (resulting in feed ripples) and tool pathway step overlaps (resulting in pitch ripples). A variety of tool influence function (TIF) spots, trenches, and patches were created to understand and minimize such ripples on fused silica workpieces after polishing with cerium oxide slurry using a rotating hemispherical pad-foam tool. The feed ripple amplitude can be decreased by reducing the non-uniformities in the pad texture and/or by minimizing a derived feed ripple metric ( r f = V m a x 0...

PURPOSE: To develop and validate a deep learning model to automatically segment three structures using an anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT): The intraocular lens (IOL), the retrolental space (IOL to the posterior lens capsule) and Berger's space (BS; posterior capsule to the anterior hyaloid membrane). METHODS: An artificial intelligence (AI) approach based on a deep learning model to automatically segment the IOL, the retrolental space, and BS in AS-OCT, was trained using annotations from an experienced clinician...

PURPOSE: To compare prostaglandin E2 (PGE-2) levels in the aqueous and pupil diameter in patients undergoing low-pulse energy femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery (LCS) without non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (NSAID) pretreatment with either fragmentation or capsulotomy performed first. DESIGN: Prospective, randomized, fellow-eye controlled comparison. METHODS: This study was undertaken at the Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna...

A 65-year-old woman had undergone bilateral foldable iris-fixated phakic intraocular lens (pIOL) implantation in 2008 to correct for high myopia of -10 diopters (D). 12 years later, she presented with nuclear and subcortical cataract in her right eye. The Artiflex pIOL (Figure 1JOURNAL/jcrs/04.03/02158034-202111000-00021/figure1/v/2021-10-20T185516Z/r/image-tiff) was well centered and fixed to the iris. Endothelial cell count (ECC) was 2159 per mm2 and corneal thickness 515 µm. Residual correction in her distance glass was -1...

PURPOSE: The purpose of the study was to compare ultrasound (US) consumption and central macular thickness (CMT) and volume changes with manual and femtosecond laser (FSL)-assisted cataract nucleus workup. METHODS: Sixty patients scheduled for immediate sequential bilateral surgery underwent a prospective randomized intraindividual comparison of nucleus sector fragmentation performed manually in one eye and with low-energy FSL assistance in the partner eye, followed by high-fluidics phacoaspiration with a maximum US power of 30%...

PURPOSE: To compare the axis position of the measured total corneal astigmatism (TCA) with the axis of the anterior keratometry and the calculated axis position of different toric intraocular lens (IOL) calculators. METHODS: A total of 163 astigmatic eyes of 163 patients were retrospectively analyzed. The axis of the actual TCA, measured with anterior segment optical coherence tomography, was compared to the anterior keratometric value (Group I) and three different methods of TCA calculation for toric IOL power determination: Abulafia-Koch regression formula (Group II), Barrett Toric Calculator V2...

PURPOSE: Long-term results of arcuate incisions are rarely reported. This is unfortunate as long-term stability of astigmatic correction is of great interest to surgeons performing astigmatic correction. This study investigates the 7 year stability of results after application of femtosecond laser-assisted arcuate incisions with the Castrop nomogram. METHODS: Prospective interventional case series at the Augen- und Laserklinik, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany. Single site, single surgeon study...

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of age-related lens opacities and advanced cataract, quantified by LOCS III grading, on quantitative autofluorescence (qAF) measurements in patients before and after cataract surgery. Images from a randomized controlled trial evaluating the impact of femtosecond-laser assisted cataract surgery (FLACS) on retinal thickness were analyzed post-hoc. One-hundred and twenty eyes from 60 consecutive patients with age-related cataract were included and assessed with qAF and optical coherence tomography (OCT) before, 1, 3 and 6 weeks after cataract surgery (randomized 1:1 to FLACS or phacoemulsification)...

PURPOSE: To assess the reliability and reproducibility of a new semiautomated evaluation method, "Rotix," for intraocular lens (IOL) rotation and to define a standardized evaluation method for future toric IOL studies. DESIGN: Reliability and reproducibility study. METHODS: Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna. PATIENT POPULATION: A dataset of 25 patients with 2 consecutive follow-up visits was created to test the intra- and interrater reliability...

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to develop a straightforward mathematical concept for determination of object to image magnification in both phakic and pseudophakic eyes, based on biometric measures, refractometry and data from an anterior segment optical coherence tomography (OCT). METHODS: We have developed a strategy for calculating ocular magnification based on axial length measurement, phakic anterior chamber and lens thickness, keratometry and crystalline lens front and back surface curvatures for the phakic eye, and axial length measurement, anterior chamber and lens thickness, keratometry and intraocular lens power, refractive index and shape factor for the pseudophakic eye...

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An 89-year-old man had cataract surgery in 2005 in both eyes. At that time, he already had glaucoma that was well regulated with topical therapy and drusen maculopathy with incipient areal atrophy. Fifteen years later, the patient presented with a decrease in visual acuity of his only reading eye, his right eye. Visual acuity 1 year before presentation was reported as 0.5, Jg2 in his right eye, 0.2, Jg15 in his left eye with drusen maculopathy in both eyes, and an atrophic macular scar in the left eye. Slitlamp biomicroscopy showed an inferotemporally decentered and wobbling intraocular lens (IOL)-capsular bag (CB) complex in the right eye, with the bag equator and a capsular tension ring (CTR) visible in a miotic pupil and pseudoexfoliation (PXF) material accumulated along the pupillary margin...

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The influence of workpiece curvature on the tool influence function spot during polishing of fused silica glass with cerium oxide slurry, while using a rotating hemispherical pad-foam tool for a wide variety of process conditions (tool displacement, inclination angle, and rotation rate), has been investigated. (Workpiece curvature ranged from 500 mm radius concave to 43 mm radius convex.) The TIF spot decreases in diameter and increases in the peak removal rate on more convex workpieces. In contrast, the TIF spot increases both in diameter and peak removal rate on more concave workpieces...

PURPOSE: To analyse corneal power based on a large optical coherence tomography dataset using raytracing, and to evaluate corneal power with respect to the corneal front apex plane for different definitions of best focus. METHODS: A large OCT dataset (10,218 eyes of 8,430 patients) from the Casia 2 (Tomey, Japan) was post-processed in MATLAB (MathWorks, USA). Using radius of curvature, corneal front and back surface asphericity, central corneal thickness, and pupil size (aperture) a bundle of rays was traced through the cornea...

PURPOSE: To assess rotational stability, axial stability, decentration, and tilt of the Rayner RAO800C single-piece hydrophobic acrylic intraocular lens (IOL) (Rayner Intraocular Lenses Ltd) from end of surgery to 4 to 7 months postoperatively. METHODS: Surgeries were performed at the Department of Ophthalmology at the Medical University of Vienna. A total of 130 eyes of 68 patients received an aspheric hydrophobic Rayner RAO0800C IOL. IOLs were randomly implanted to the 0 ± 10, 45 ± 10, 90 ± 10, or 135 ± 10 degree axis...

PURPOSE: This study aims to develop a raytracing-based strategy for calculating corneal power from anterior segment optical coherence tomography data and extracting the individual keratometer index, which converts the corneal front surface radius to corneal power. METHODS: A large OCT dataset (10,218 eyes of 8,430 patients) from the Casia 2 (Tomey, Japan) was post-processed in MATLAB (MathWorks, USA). Radius of curvature, asphericity of the corneal front and back surface, central corneal thickness and pupil size (aperture) were used to trace a bundle of rays through the cornea and derive the best focus plane...

Sub-aperture tool polishing of precision optics requires a detailed understanding of the local material removal [tool influence function (TIF)] at the contact spot between the workpiece and tool to achieve high removal determinism and hence precision of the optic relative to the desired/design surface figure. In this study, the mechanisms influencing and the quantitative prediction of the removal rate and shape of TIF spots during polishing of fused silica glass with cerium oxide slurry using a rotating hemispherical pad-foam tool for a wide variety of process conditions (including tool properties, kinematics, and applied displacements) are investigated...

PURPOSE: To investigate corneal astigmatism (CA) reduction and corneal optical quality after surface-penetrating femtosecond laser arcuate keratotomies (Femto AK) considering anterior (CAant ) and posterior corneal curvature (CApost ), total corneal refractive power astigmatism (CAtot ), and corneal higher-order aberrations (HOAs) through one year. DESIGN: Prospective interventional case series METHODS: Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Vienna PATIENT POPULATION: 43 eyes of 43 patients with age-related cataract and CAtot between 1 and 3 diopters [D]...

OBJECTIVES: Patients with cancer frequently use botanical medications. The concomitant use of such medications by patients on commercial trials has not been well-described, despite the importance of these trials for evaluating the safety and efficacy of new agents. We sought to describe the use of botanical medications taken by patients with prostate cancer enrolled on global commercial trials. DESIGN: Retrospective study. SETTING: Regulatory repository of commercial clinical trial data...