Monochromatic wavefront aberrations in the human eye with contact lenses

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 135-141

  Lu, Fan ^a   Mao, Xinjie ^a   Qu, Jia ^a   Xu, Dan ^a   He, Ji C ^b  

^a WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact lens; Rigid gas permeable contact lens; Soft contact lens; Wavefront aberration; Zernike aberration

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; WAVEFRONTS;

WAVEFRONT ABERRATIONS;

CONTACT LENSES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTACT LENSES, HYDROPHILIC; CORNEA; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; HUMANS; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS;

EID: 0037321677     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-200302000-00009     Document Type: Article

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