A. Ho et al., Theoretical analysis of accommodation amplitude and ametropia correction by varying refractive index in Phaco-Ersatz, OPT VIS SCI, 78(6), 2001, pp. 405-410
Phaco-Ersatz is a surgical procedure for restoring accommodation in which t
he presbyopic crystalline lens is replaced by a flexible polymer gel in the
lens capsule. We assessed the feasibility of simultaneously correcting ame
tropia while restoring accommodation using Phaco-Ersatz by utilizing polyme
r gel of the appropriate refractive index. Computation results using paraxi
al equations and ray tracing on two model eyes indicate that although this
approach might be feasible for the hypermetrope, its usefulness for correct
ing myopia is limited, principally due to significant reductions in the res
ultant amplitude of accommodation.