Seventh International Visual Field Symposium, Amsterdam, September 1986

I. Influence of media opacities on the visual field.- 1. Influence of ocular media on perimetric results: effect of IOL implantation.- 2. Influence of ocular media on perimetric results: effect of simulated cataract.- 3. The influence of simulated media opacities on threshold measurements.- 4. Simulation of the influence of lens opacities on the perimetric results; investigated with orthoptic occluders.- 5. Relation between media disturbances and the visual field.- 6. Relationship between cataract density and visual field damage.- 7. A comparison of visual impairment caused by nuclear (NC) and posterior subcapsular (PSC) cataracts.- 8. The role of intraocular light scatter in the attenuation of the perimetric response.- 9. Computer perimetry in patients with corneal dystrophies.- 10. Does higher background illumination lessen the effect of media opacities on visual fields?.- II. Normal and pathological variability.- 1. Short-term and long-term fluctuation of thresholds in automated perimetry in normals, ocular hypertensives and glaucoma patients.- 2. Visual field variability in stable glaucoma patients.- 3. Total variance of serial Octopus visual fields in glaucomatous eyes.- 4. Variability of computerized threshold measurements across the central field in a normal population.- 5. Estimates of variance in visual field data.- 6. Fluctuation and population differences in automated perimetry and the influence on defect volume esimation.- 7. The distribution of visual field scores in a normal population.- 8. Kinetic short-term fluctuation in patients with glaucoma and suspected glaucoma.- 9. Artefacts of computerized perimetry may simulate glaucomatous defects.- 10. A longitudinal study of scotoma variation in glaucoma.- 11. The macular threshold: determination of population normal values.- III. Computerized visual field analysis.- 1. A system for the analysis of automated visual fields using the Humphrey Visual Field Analyzer.- 2. A package for the statistical analysis of computerized fields.- 3. Artificial intelligence in computerized perimetry.- 4. Trend analyses of automated visual fields.- 5. The quantification of the visual field in computer-assisted threshold perimetry.- 6. Behaviour of visual field indices with a gradient adaptive method.- 7. Computer-assisted visual field assessment: quantification, three-and four-dimensional representations.- 8. Quantitative supra-threshold static perimetry: the value of field score and asymmetry analysis in the early detection of chronic open angle glaucoma.- IV. New instruments, test programmes and displays.- 1. Clinical results with the Henson-Hamblin CFS2000.- 2. Visual field screening using two symmetrical stimuli — prototype of a new automatic perimeter.- 3. A new computerized perimeter (‘Competer 750’) for examination of neuro-ophthalmic patients.- 4. SAPPAR: an auxiliary program for SAPRO.- 5. Dynamic representation of the visual field.- 6. Comparative evaluation of the Humphrey Field Analyser, Peritest and Scoperimeter.- 7. Computer-aided analysis in automated dark-adapted static perimetry.- V. Glaucoma.- 1. Visual field and neuroretinal rim area changes with time.- 2. Comparison of the changes in the area of optic disc pallor and visual fields: a 9-year follow-up study.- 3. The changes of visual field sensitivity accompanied by enlargement of the glaucomatous optic cup.- 4. Patterns of early visual field loss in open angle glaucoma.- 5. Is there a difference between glaucoma patients with rather localized visual field damage and patients with more diffuse visual field damage?.- 6. First experiences with the new Octopus G1-program in chronic simple glaucoma.- 7. Cup/disk ratio, excavation volume, neuroretinal rim area of the optic disk in correlation to computer-perimetric quantification of visual field defects in glaucoma with and without pressure.- 8. Topography and progression of visual field damage in low tension glaucoma, open angle glaucoma and pigmentary glaucoma with the program Delta of the Octopus perimeter 201.- 9. The comparison of kinetic and static perimetry by means of the Arden test, the glare test, the colour vision test and PERG in patients with glaucoma and ocular hypertension.- 10. Glaucomatous field changes related to the method and degree of intracular pressure control.- 11. Correlation of intraocular pressure and visual field following argon laser trabeculoplasty.- 12. Perimetric changes induced by artificial hypotension as an attempt towards determination of risk IOP in early open angle glaucoma.- 13. The usefulness of automated perimetry in detecting early glaucoma.- 14. Do ocular vasospasms help cause low tension glaucoma?.- 15. On the provocation of visual field defects in glaucoma cases.- 16. Glaucoma follow-up by means of central differential threshold measurements.- VI. New psycho-physical tests.- 1. Multi-flash campimetry: the rapid assessment of temporal resolving power.- 2. Multi-flash campimetry and other psycho-physical tests in chronic open angle glaucoma.- 3. Pattern discrimination perimetry: a new concept in visual field testing.- 4. A computer-graphics visual field screener using high-pass spatial frequency resolution targets and multiple feedback devices.- 5. Peripheral displacement thresholds in normals, ocular hypertensives and glaucoma.- 6. Application of the Troxler effect in campimetry of glaucoma suspects.- VII. Fundus perimetry.- 1. Visual field in diabetic retinopathy — light sensitivity in retinal lesions.- 2. Early foveal dysfunction in glaucoma.- 3. The measurement of normal retinal sensitivity in the central quantitative visual field using a fundus photo-perimeter.- 4. Characteristics of two systems of human vision using fundus perimetry.- 5. Blind spots of normal and high myopic eyes measured by fundus photo-perimetry.- 6. A rapid technique for kinetic visual field determination in young children and adults with central retinal lesions.- VIII. Ergo-perimetry.- 1. Percentage impairment by visual field defects.- 2. Automated Esterman testing of disability in glaucoma.- 3. Functional quantification of the visual field: a new scoring method.- 4. Effects of visual field defects on driving performance.- IX. Miscellaneous.- 1. Standards of perimetry.- 2. Automated perimeter results: the need for a common language.- 3. JAWS (Joint Automated Weighting Statistic): a method of converting results between automated perimeters.- 4. Octopus visual field examination in Saudi Arabia: an assessment of patient performance.- 5. Staircase scoring procedures for automated perimetry.- 6. A new contingent algorithm for static automatic perimetry based upon chain pattern analysis.- 7. Reliability parameters in computerized perimetry.- 8. Experience with the reliability parameters of the Octopus automated perimeter.- 9. Primate arcuate nerve fiber bundle anatomy.- 10. A new numerical representation of the visual field in cases of chiasmal tumor.- 11. Pituitary adenomas with ocular manifestations: incidence of cases and clinical findings 1946–1984.- 12. Computerized perimetry in neuro-ophthalmology: comparison of different test patterns by an ‘information index’.- 13. Selective retests in automated perimetry: an experimental study for the evaluation of the effect of the regression towards the mean.- 14. Binocular threshold campimetry in the amblyopic syndrome.- 15. Centro-coecal field examination in chronic alcoholism.- 16. The effect of miosis on visual field indices.- 17. Spectral sensitivities on a white background as a function of retinal eccentricity.- 18. Population study of global and local fatigue with prolonged threshold testing in automated perimetry.- 19. The correlation of the physiological blind spot and the disc area.- 20. Anomalous visual response in Tourette’s syndrome.- Authors index.