Optical profilometry of poly(methylmethacrylate) surfaces after reshaping with a scanning photorefractive keratectomy (SPRK) system

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 3338-3346

  Manns, Fabrice ^a   Rol, Pascal ^b,d   Parel, Jean Marie ^a,e   Schmid, Armin ^c   Shen, Jin Hui ^a   Matsui, Takaaki ^a   Söderberg, Per ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Cornea; Laser surgery; Photorefractive keratectomy; Profilometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000446056     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.003338     Document Type: Article

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