A team at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has now developed a portable device able to simulate the multi-focal visual corrections that a synthetic intraocular lens (IOL) can provide to a patient, helping them to appreciate what the surgery might offer. The work was published inOptica.
An increasingly attractive solution for presbyopia – the loss of focusing power in the eye which comes to most with advancing years, if not before – is multi-focal lenses using diffractive or refractive profiles, resulting in bifocal, trifocal, and extended-depth-of-focus designs. Click to read more