Comparison of real and computer-simulated outcomes of LASIK refractive surgery

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

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 926-936

  Cano, Daniel ^a   Barbero, Sergio ^a   Marcos, Susana ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ÓPTICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ALGORITHMS; ASPHERICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LASER ABLATION; LASER PULSES; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEFRONTS;

BICONIC ABLATION PATTERN; CORNEAL ASPHERICITY; CUSTOMIZED ABLATION PATTERN; LASER IN SITU KERATOMILEUSIS; MUNNERLYN ABLATION PATTERN; PARABOLIC ABLATION PATTERN; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; SPHERICAL ABERRATIONS;

LASER SURGERY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORNEA; EVALUATION; EYE REFRACTION; HUMAN; KERATOMETRY; KERATOMILEUSIS; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFRACTION ERROR; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION STUDY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042524985     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.21.000926     Document Type: Article

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