1Department of Electronics and Communications Technology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2PlenOptika, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
3Ophthalmology Department, Fundación Jimenez Diaz Hospital, Madrid, Spain
4Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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Submitted: March 26, 2018
Accepted: June 12, 2019
Funding/Support: Seeing Is Believing grant (to SRD); PlenOptika Inc. (to EL); and Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Ramon y Cajal; to EL).
Conflict of Interest Disclosure: NJD, SRD, DL, and EL are inventors on patents related to the autorefractor used in this study. EL, MR, CSH, and IC are funded through grant agreements between Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and PlenOptika Inc. NJD, SRD, DL, EL, and CSH have a financial interest in PlenOptika, Inc.
Study Registration Information: Ensayo y evaluación de dispositivo de bajo coste para la medida de errores refractivos [Test and evaluation of a low cost device for the measurement of refractive errors]/Medical School of the Universidad Automona de Madrid/Comité de Ética en Investigación Clínica 170501.
Author Contributions and Acknowledgments: Conceptualization: DL; Formal Analysis: MR, ES, SRD, DL, EL; Funding Acquisition: SRD, DL, EL; Investigation: MR, CSH, ES, PP-M, NJD, EL; Methodology: MR, ES, PP-M, NJD, EL; Project Administration: PP-M, EL; Resources: IC; Software: CSH, IC, EL; Supervision: PP-M, DL, EL; Validation: CSH, ES, IC, SRD, NJD, EL; Visualization: ES, PP-M, IC, EL; Writing – Original Draft: MR; Writing – Review & Editing: CSH, PP-M, SRD, DL, NJD, EL.
The authors wish to thank Professors Susana Marcos and Carlos Dorronsoro from VioBio Lab (Instituto de Óptica Daza de Valdes, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain) for providing access to some of the equipment used in this study.
