Visual performance with night vision goggles after photorefractive keratectomy for myopia

Ophthalmology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 525-530

  Subramanian, Prem S ^a   O'Kane, Barbara ^b   Stefanik, Raymond ^b   Stevens, James ^b   Rabin, Jeff ^a   Bauer, Robert M ^a   Bower, Kraig S ^a,c  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NIGHT VISION AND ELECTRONIC SENSORS DIRECTORATE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATECTOMY; LIGHT REFRACTION; MALE; MYOPIA; NIGHT VISION; NIGHT VISION GOGGLES; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOLDIER; SPECTACLES; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAINING; VISION; VISION TEST; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0037372141     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(02)01763-3     Document Type: Article

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