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Although the Stiles-Crawford effect (SCE) is of retinal origin, many of its roles in vision have been modeled successfully with an optical apodization of the pupil plane. By neutralizing the postulated apodization of the pupil, and thereby effectively canceling the SCE, we can examine the optical and visual impact of the SCE experimentally. We created reversely apodized filters, which were aligned with the subject’s own SCE to create a uniformly transmitting pupil. To demonstrate the new technique, we measured the effect of pupil diameter on ocular transverse chromatic aberration (TCA) under normal conditions and again with the SCE neutralized. Results confirm earlier suggestions that SCE apodization modulates the effect of pupil diameter and location on perceived TCA, monocular chromatic diplopia, and chromostereopsis.
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Rynders, M.C., Thibos, L.N., Bradley, A., LóPez-Gil, N. (1997). Apodization Neutralization. In: Lakshminarayanan, V. (eds) Basic and Clinical Applications of Vision Science. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 60. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5698-1_6
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