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Collegium antropologicum, Vol. 37 Supplement 1 No. 1, 2013.

Professional paper

Visual Field

Jana Sokolová Šidlová ; Faculty of Medicine, Departments of Non-medical Branches, Department of Optometry and Orthoptics, Brno, Czech Republic
Pavel Beneš ; Faculty of Medicine, Departments of Non-medical Branches, Department of Optometry and Orthoptics, Brno, Czech Republic
Zuzana Holoubková ; Oční optika – Rubín, Brno, Czech Republic

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Abstract

This article is dedicated to main information about visual field, monocular and binocular ranges of visual field including their defects. Visual field loss may occur to disease of the eye, optic nerve or brain. Typical changes are present at glaucoma and macular degeneration. Visual pathway is also mentioned. The basic medical examinations of visual fields are Amsler grid, kinetic and static perimetry and the other. Newer method is microperimetry which detects the changes directly on the retina. The aim of this poster is importance and determination of visual field as a preventive ophthalmologic and optometric examination.

Keywords

visual field; visual pathway; visual field defects; examination of the visual field; Amsler grid; kinetic and static perimetry; microperimetry

Hrčak ID:

102852

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/102852

Publication date:

22.4.2013.

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