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Eye Essentials: Ophthalmic Imaging

  • 1st Edition - March 27, 2008
  • Latest edition
  • Author: James Stuart William Wolffsohn
  • Editors: Sandip Doshi, William Harvey
  • Language: English

Eye Essentials is a major new series which provides authoritative and accessible information for all eye care professionals, whether in training or in practice. Each book is a… Read more

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Eye Essentials is a major new series which provides authoritative and accessible information for all eye care professionals, whether in training or in practice. Each book is a rapid revision aid for students taking higher professional qualifications and a handy clinical reference guide for practitioners in busy clinics. Highly designed with synoptic text, handy tables, key bullet points, summaries, icons and stunning full colour illustrations, the books have rapidly established themselves as the essential eye clinic pocket books. Ophthalmic Imaging explains and demonstrates the complete technology involved with imaging, from imaging chip and colour information capture to high-end instrumentation as this is critical to a full understanding of the potential and limitations of ocular imaging.

Key features

  • Practical advice
  • Evidence-based
  • Highly designed, modern with icons, tables, synoptic text
  • Very practical – with highlighted advice sections for patients, handy tables
  • White coat pocket book
  • Key opinion leaders for authors – not contributed so consistency of style and presentation
  • Pulls the information together in one place very briefly
  • Well illustrated

Readership

Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 29, 2008
  • Language: English

About the editors

SD

Sandip Doshi

Affiliations and expertise
Optometrist in private practice, Hove, East Sussex, UK; Examiner, College of Optometrists, London, UK; Formerly Clinical Editor, Optician journal

WH

William Harvey

Affiliations and expertise
Visiting Clinician and Boots Opticians' Tutor Practitioner, Fight for Sight Optometry Clinic, City University, London, UK; Clinical Editor, Optician, Reed Business Information, Sutton, UK; Examiner, College of Optometrists, London, UK

About the author

JW

James Stuart William Wolffsohn

Professor James S. Wolffsohn is the head of both the School of Optometry and the Department of Audiology at Aston University. His main research areas are the development and evaluation of ophthalmic instrumentation, myopia management, contact lenses, intraocular lenses, presbyopia and the tear film. He is a National Teaching Fellow, has published more than 325 peer-reviewed papers, and has presented at numerous international conferences. He is the Academic Chair and a past president of the British Contact Lens Association.

He chaired the BCLA Contact Lens Evidence-based Academic Reports (CLEAR), is on the Executive Board of TFOS, was a harmoniser and sub-committee chair for TFOS DEWS II & TFOS Lifestyle reports. Further, he is the International Myopia Institute’s Chief Scientific Officer, and was joint-Chair of their white papers. Professor Wolffsohn holds the BCLA Medal (2021) and AAOptom Glenn Fry Award (2022).

Affiliations and expertise
Head, School of Optometry and Department of Audiology, Aston University, UK

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