Abstract

Vision is rarely evaluated scientifically at very large visual angles, despite being used continuously in everyday life. Furthermore, raytrace calculations indicate that peripheral optical properties are different for a pseudophakic eye, and even though this is rarely noted by patients, it is probably the cause of bothersome “negative dysphotopsia.” Simplified paraxial parameters that characterize the basic properties of phakic and pseudophakic eyes are collected together here as a baseline, and then raytracing is used to show that input angles of about 60°, which correspond to obstruction by the nose, eyebrow, and cheek, illuminate a retinal hemisphere. At larger angles in the temporal direction, the image with an intraocular lens (IOL) reaches a limit due to vignetting at about a 90° input angle to the optical axis, in comparison to 105° with the Gullstrand–Emsley eye model, and 109° for the most realistic gradient index crystalline lens model. Scaling the far peripheral vision region more accurately may lead to benefits relating to intraocular lenses, diseases of the peripheral retina, widefield fundus images, and myopia prevention.

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