Opticare, a leading Australian optical lab and eye care solutions provider with over 40 years of industry experience, has recently launched the Opticare ART refraction system, helping optometrists obtain more precise prescriptions.
Introduced in August 2024 at the Optipro Roadshow events in Perth, Sydney, and Brisbane, Opticare ART, or the Adaptive Refractive Technology, is “quickly gaining traction in the independent optometry sector”, the company said in a release.
“For years, traditional refraction methods have relied on subjective adjustments,” it said.
“Opticare ART enhances these methods by integrating advanced diagnostic tools and technologies. This revolutionary system complements existing techniques, offering optometrists a way to deliver more accurate, comfortable, and effective vision solutions.”
The Opticare ART uses a four-step process to maximise refraction precision:
- Scan: Collects up to 7,000 measurement points, creating “a highly accurate map of the eye’s optical structure”.
- Optimisation: Uses complex algorithms to refine data from advanced visual maps – such as axial, tangential, and refractive maps – into precise prescription parameters, ensuring optimal visual clarity and comfort.
- Comparison: Generates multiple lens options, including Standard Rx, Daylight Rx, and Twilight Rx, enabling optometrists to select the most appropriate solution.
- Subjective verification: Fine-tunes prescriptions with 0.06 D and 0.12 D trial lenses to match patient preferences.
The company said the device incorporated advanced wavefront technology.
“This state-of-the-art system combines Shack-Hartmann and Placido technologies to deliver precise refraction, keratometry, and topography measurements, enhancing vision correction accuracy.”
Key features include day and night vision comparison, wavefront refraction and topography maps, and instant PRx and MRx scripts in 0.01 D steps.
Other notable capabilities, according to Opticare include: measuring up to seventh order wavefront; factoring in contrast sensitivity using patient age and normative data; correcting wavefront errors from first to seventh order with Strehl Ratio; using Point Spread Function (PSF) and letter chart simulations for various corrections; and instant comparisons between wavefront and conventional autorefraction.
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