Jason Turuwhenua

Research Fellow, Associate Director (Māori)
MSc(Hons), PhD Waik.

Contact details
UniServices House, Room 701
70 Symonds Street
Auckland

Phone +64 9 3737599 ext 85807
Email: j.turuwhenua@auckland.ac.nz

Profile

Jason is a Research Fellow who works between the Auckland Bioengineering Institute and the Department of Optometry and Vision Science. Jason is interested in how engineering methods might be applied to problems of interest in vision. To date this has involved work on corneal topography (videokeratography), simulating retinal images, as well as image processing. At present Jason is working on developing 'the virtual eye', which is a physics based system for investigating eye disease.

Research interests

• corneal topography
• image processing
• physiological optics
• engineering

Recent publications

• Reconstructing ocular surfaces by Purkinje images using an exact ray approach: estimating IOL decenter and tilt, Turuwhenua, J., Ophthal Physiol Opt. 30(1):43-54. 2010
• Reconstructing ocular surface by Purkinje images: an exact ray approach, Turuwhenua, J. Ophthal Physiol Opt. 29: 80-91. 2009
• Semi-Automated Montaging of the Entire Corneal Sub-Basal Plexus., Turuwhenua J, Patel DV, McGhee CNJ., Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci; 2009:E-Abstract 3696. 2009
• An improved low order method for corneal reconstruction, Turuwhenua, J., Optom VisSci. Optom Vis Sci. 85(3):211-7. 2008
• Corneal surface reconstruction algorithm using Zernike polynomial representation: improvements, Turuwhenua, J., J Opt Soc Am A 24(6), pp. 1551-1561, 2007