The Accuracy and Precision Performance of Four Videokeratoscopes in Measuring Test Surfaces

In this study we evaluated the accuracy and precision of three placido-disk videokeratoscopes (the Keratron, Medmont and TMS) and one videokeratoscope that uses the raster-stereogrammetry technique (PAR-CTS) in elevation topography with six test surfaces. The test surfaces were a sphere, an asphere, a multicurve, and three bicurve surfaces. Each instrument performed well on certain test surfaces, but none of the instruments excelled on all of the surfaces. The results showed high accuracy of the Keratron and Medmont instruments in measuring the sphere, asphere, and multicurve surfaces, but not the bicurve surfaces. The precision of the Keratron and Medmont instruments were high. The TMS and PAR-CTS instruments showed poorer accuracy than the Keratron and Medmont instruments for the multicurve test surface but showed better performance for the bicurve surfaces. The PAR-CTS had the poorest performance in precision of the four instruments. The use of the Noryl spherical test surface instead of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) resulted in small differences in the accuracy performance of the placido-disk videokeratoscopes only.

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