Optics for the New Millennium An Absolute Review Textbook

This textbook serves as a comprehensive manual on Optics that includes both didactics and assessment questions in an easy-to-read format. It provides an educational and entertaining resource that reinforces the relevance of the subject matter to modern clinical and surgical ophthalmology practice. The book offers a one-stop compendium for students studying for certification exams and for practicing ophthalmologists to review and learn Optics that will have relevance to their day-to-day practice. Chapters are written in a teaching-oriented style and include hi-yield summaries, 375+ original figures, and 190+ review questions.

The book is divided into three areas of focus:

• Written Exam Preparation
• Oral Exam Preparation and Clinical Practice
• Ophthalmic Optics for Surgical Practice

Optics for the New Millennium is a must-have resource for ophthalmology residents as well as practicing ophthalmologists with clinical, surgical and testable relevance.

Section I: Ophthalmic Optics For Written Exam.- Chapter 1. Geometric Optics.- Chapter 2. Prisms.- Chapter 3. Lenses.- Chapter 4. Mirrors and Combined Systems.- Chapter 5. Power of Lenses in Different Media.- Chapter 6. Lens Effectivity.- Chapter 7. Schematic Eye.- Chapter 8. Magnification and Telescopes.- Chapter 9. Accommodation and Presbyopia.- Chapter 10. Spherocylindrical Lenses.- Chapter 11. Astigmatism.- Chapter 12. Glasses for Written Exams.- Chapter 13. Contact Lenses for Written Exams.- Chapter 14. Physical Optics and Advanced Optical Principles.- Section II: Ophthalmic Optics for Oral Exams and Clinical Practice.- Chapter 15. Glasses in Clinical Practice.- Chapter 16. Construction of Glasses.- Chapter 17. Optical Instruments.- Chapter 18. Visual Activity Testing and Assessment.- Chapter 19. Low Vision and Vision Rehabilitation.- Chapter 20. Contact Lenses in Clinical Practice.- Chapter 21. Clinical Problems with Optics and Refractive Manifestations.- Chapter 22. Optics for Clinical and Surgical Management of Strabismus.- Chapter 23. Pediatric Optics.- Chapter 24. Myopia Control.- Chapter 25. Optics in Micro-Gravity and Zero-Gravity Conditions.- Section III: Ophthalmic Optics for Surgical Practice.- Chapter 26. Preoperative Optics for Cataract Surgery.- Chapter 27. What's on the Menu: An Overview of IOLs and Relevant Optics.- Chapter 28. Intraoperative Optics for Cataract Surgery.- Chapter 29. Postoperative Optics for Cataract Surgery.- Chapter 30. Optics for Refractive Surgery.

Kamran M. Riaz, MD

Clinical Associate Professor of Ophthalmology

Dean McGee Eye Institute, University of Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, OK, USA 

G. Vike Vicente, MD

Eye Doctors of Washington 

Chevy Chase, MD, USA 

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology

Georgetown University Hospital

Department of Pediatrics and Ophthalmology

Chevy Chase, MD, USA

Center for Sight

Stockton, CA, USA