Abstract

A statistical model of the wavefront aberration function of the normal, well-corrected eye was constructed based on normative data from 200 eyes which show that, apart from spherical aberration, the higher-order aberrations of the human eye tend to be randomly distributed about a mean value of zero. The vector of Zernike aberration coefficients describing the aberration function for any individual eye was modelled as a multivariate, Gaussian, random variable with known mean, variance and covariance. The model was verified by analysing the statistical properties of 1000 virtual eyes generated by the model. Potential applications of the model include computer simulation of individual variation in aberration structure, retinal image quality, visual performance, benefit of novel designs of ophthalmic lenses, or outcome of refractive surgery.

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