System performance evaluation of refractive surgical lasers: A mathematical approach

Applied Optics

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2124-2134

  Dai, Guang Ming ^a   Gross, Erik ^a   Liang, Junzhong ^a  

^a Advanced Medical Optics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; LASER ABLATION; OPTICAL PHASE CONJUGATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCANNING;

REFRACTIVE SURGICAL LASER SYSTEMS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERROR; SYSTEM-LEVEL ANALYSIS; WAVEFRONT GUIDED ABLATIONS;

LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY; REFRACTION ERROR; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; KERATECTOMY, PHOTOREFRACTIVE, EXCIMER LASER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33645779495     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.45.002124     Document Type: Article

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