Corneal asphericity after refractive surgery when the Munnerlyn formula is applied

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 98-103

  Jiménez, José Ramón ^a   González Anera, Rosario ^a   Díaz, José Antonio ^a   Pérez Ocón, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURGERY;

CORNEAL ASPHERICITY; LEAST SQUARES PROCEDURE; MUNNERLYN FORMULA; PARABOLIC APPROXIMATION; PARAXIAL APPROXIMATION; REFRACTIVE SURGERY;

ASPHERICS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; KERATOMETRY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REFRACTION ERROR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REFRACTIVE ERRORS;

EID: 0347134514     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.21.000098     Document Type: Article

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