Assessment of ablation zone centration after photorefractive keratectomy using a vector center of mass formula

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 483-491

  Almendral, Dante ^a   Waller, Stephen G ^a   Talamo, Jonathan H ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Cornea Consultants ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HIGH MYOPIA; HUMAN; KERATECTOMY; KERATOMETRY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CORNEA; EYE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; MATHEMATICS; MYOPIA; PUPIL; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0029894842     PISSN: 08830444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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