Ovitz X-Wave
Taking Higher-Order Aberration (HOA) Correction to the Next Level
If you’ve been told there’s nothing more that can be done for your vision — OVITZ X-wave may be the solution you have been looking for.
The Ovitz X-wave aberrometer detects aberrations anywhere they exist along the path of light through your eye. Then a custom contact lens is specially designed and made with built-in corrections for your eye.
The Ovitz X-wave process is automated, making it the most user-friendly design and interface.
Ovitz X-wave isn’t simply a new kind of aberrometer: it’s a total lens manufacturing process layer that achieves accurate corneal measurements and produces custom contact lens designs.
What are Higher Order Aberrations?
Most eye exams don’t evaluate for HOAs. Traditional tools like corneal topographers only look at the front surface of the eye — missing distortions deeper in the visual system. Even when HOAs are suspected, they often go unaddressed due to lack of technology.
If you’re already wearing specialty lenses—like scleral lenses or gas-permeable contacts—but still notice issues like glare, halos, starbursts, ghosting, or night vision problems, you may be dealing with something called Higher Order Aberrations (HOAs).
HOAs are tiny imperfections in the way light moves through your eye. These irregularities can be on the cornea, the lens inside your eye, or other internal structures. Even with a high-quality specialty lens in place, some of that distorted light may still reach your retina, causing vision that feels “off” — even if your prescription is technically correct.
Imagine shining a flashlight through a smooth glass versus a cut crystal. That’s the difference HOAs can make in how clearly you see.
Ovitz X-Wave: The First Four-in-One Aberrometer for Wavefront-guide Contact Lens Design
1.Wavefront Map
The wavefront map gives a detailed view into the refractive properties of the eye. It provides a high resolution map of the eye’s refraction in individual portions of the pupil. This map can be used to provide a highly customized correction for the patient using the OVITZ ARES Lenses.
2. Zernike Plot
The OVITZ X-wave System provides detailed information on the composition of refractive error. Visualization tools allow you to quickly determine which higher order aberrations are most affecting your patient and how best to correct them
3. MTF
The OVITZ system provides additional visualizations and metrics about the patient’s visual performance. Higher order aberration based analysis such as MTF can provide accurate metrics of how the patient sees across a variety of spatial frequencies and lighting conditions
4. Pupil Size Analysis
The increased resolution OVITZ system allows you to simulate all of the above features at different pupil sizes. This gives a better view into what the patient is experiencing, a better understanding of the best correction, and gives the patient visual tools to understand that blurry night driving.
Cornea and Contact Lens Institute of Minnesota serves patients from all over Minnesota, the upper Midwest and internationally, but more specifically from Edina, Maple Grove, Wayzata, Bloomington, Minneapolis and St Paul.
Contact our optometrists at Cornea and Contact Lens Institute of Minnesota for additional information or to schedule an eye exam.
