Visual Direction (mono vs bino) Flashcards
Visual direction
Perceived location of an object in a 2D plane (horizontal and vertical) derived from visual cues.
Specification of visual direction requires what?
A reference point
What is the reference point in object space?
The object being fixated. Can then describe location of surrounding objects in comparison to the reference point.
Reference point in the eye
Fovea
Monocular (oculocentric) visual direction
Involves associating a visual receptor (or receptor field) in the retina with an external position of the object imaged on that receptor. Fixating.
When we measure visual function, we must always keep in mind that the measurement is
Situation dependent. Therefore, document the testing conditions. Ex: taking VAs in dark or light room, at 30cm or at 50cm.
The outcome of perceptual process occurs via which 3 processes?
How can poor ocular motor control affect each?
- Perceptual selection. What do I want to pay attention to?
- Perceptual organization. Which one of these belongs with the other/where are things in space?
- Perceptual Interpretation. Leads to decision, action, motion.
*poor ocular motor control adversely effect selection and organization, leading to false interpretation.
Visual line of sight joins which 3 things
Point in object space, the entrance pupil, the exit pupil, and the corresponding point in the retinal image plane (doesn’t have to be fovea)
Principle visual line
Connects the fovea to a point in object space. Not the same thing as visual axis.
Alpha angle is the angle between __ and __
The optical axis and visual axis. Monocular.
What refractive errors cause the angle alpha to be smaller or larger?
Smaller in myopia
Larger in hyperopia
Positive angle alpha
negative angle alpha
Positive: Visual axis is nasal to optical axis.
Negative: Visual axis is temporal to optical axis.
Angle kappa
Angle between the visual axis and pupillary axis.
Is angle alpha and angle kappa mono or bino
Both mono.
Angle kappa procedure
Ask patient to monocularly fixate on the transiluminator. When you view the pt’s eye, you will see the corneal reflex/first purkinje image. It will appear displaced from the pupillary center, demonstrating angle kappa.
Angle kappa may play what role in cataract surgery?
Multifocal IOL.
In eyes with a large angle kappa, a fovea centric ray may hit the edge of the ring, causing edge glare and poor vision quality.
Want to Center the multifocal IOL on the visual axis, not the pupillary axis if the pt has a large angle kappa.
Line of sight goes through what
Fixation point, entrance pupil and fovea
Visual axis goes through what
Fixation point, nodal point, and fovea.
Optical axis goes through what
?
Pupillary axis goes through what
?
Normal angle kappa/lambda
The corneal reflex will appear to be displaced nasally from the center of the pupil by about 0.5mm. This indicates that the line of sight is nasal to the pupillary axis.
Positive angle kappa
Negative angle kappa
Corneal reflex is displaced temporally.
Hirschberg Test mono or bino
Bino. Checks for strab by looking at the location of the first purkinje image OU.
Normal Hirschberg Test
Symmetrical and slightly nasal in each eye.
When to do hirschberg test
Do it for all patients with EOM testing BEFORE cover test
Hirschberg before or after CT?
Before.
Hirschberg test where is reflex on eso and exo pts
Eso: temporal
Exo: Nasal. Normal.
Do you check hirschberg before or after lamb kappa?
Hirschberg before to avoid an initial disruption of fusion in pts with fragile binocularity. Way to determine if pt is an intermittent trope. basically like a cover test.
What do you do if it looks like pt has a large angle kappa binocularly?
Do unilateral cover test. Cover 1 eye. Does the eye move to pick up fixation and cause the light reflex to move? If so, the pt has strabismus. If the light reflex stays in the same position as before, it means the pt just has a large angle kappa.
What kind of angle kappa will a high hyperope have?
Will have a large positive angle kappa, making the pt appear exo. (pseudo exo). No movement will be observed when doing unilateral CT.
What kind of angle kappa will a high myope have?
The fovea may lie nasal to the optical axis, resulting in pseudo esotropia with a negative angle kappaa. No movement will be observed on a unilateral CT.
A large positive angle kappa can make a true ___ look worse or mask a true ____
exotropia look worse or mask a true eso
A negative angle kappa can make a true ____ look worse or can mask a true ___
Make esophoria look worse or mask a true exo.
1 mm of displacement of purkinje corresponds to how ___ degree ocular misalignment
7-8 degree ocular misalignment
Peripheral vision stimulus gives information about which 4 things
- Location in space (X, Y, Z) Absolute and relative
- Motion
- Orientation
- Depth
Angles of retinal eccentricity and oculocentric direction are measured from the
Principle visual direction
If pt is fixating at a point with fovea and then moves eye to right, what angle is that? + or -
+ Clock wise/right
If pt is fixating at a point with fovea and then moves eye to left, what angle is that? + or -
- CCW, left
Object space
Image space
Neural space
Perceptual space
Object space is out in the world.
Image space is on retina
Neural space is between retina and brain
Perceptual space is what we see- not necessarily consciously