Differences between real and predicted corneal shapes after aspherical corneal ablation

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 4528-4532

  Anera, Rosario G ^a   Villa, César ^b   Jiménez, José R ^a   Gutiérrez, Ramón ^c   Del Barco, Luis Jiménez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Clínica de Oftalmología Novovisión   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; LASER ABLATION; LASER BEAMS; OPTIMIZATION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CORNEAL ABLATION; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; VISUAL FUNCTIONS;

LASER SURGERY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORNEA; EVALUATION; EYE REFRACTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; REFRACTION ERROR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORNEA; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23344439125     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.004528     Document Type: Article

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