The PASCAL Dynamic Contour Tonometer is a new digital tonometer that provides a direct trans-corneal measurement of IOP and is sensitive enough to detect the ocular pulse amplitude (OPA) due to the patient's heartbeat. Supposedly, when using the principle of contour matching instead of applanation, the PASCAL eliminates the systematic errors inherent in all previous tonometers, such as the influence of corneal thickness and rigidity. Ku et al (2005) demonstrated that the Pascal tonometer was effective in reducing corneal thickness bias during IOP measurements.