Effect of NIDEK optimized aspheric transition zone ablation profile on higher order aberrations during LASIK for myopia

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 331-338

  Kosaki, Ryo ^a,c   Maeda, Naoyuki ^a   Hayashi, Hitoshi ^a   Fujikado, Takashi ^a   Okamoto, Shigeki ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Okamoto Eye Clinic   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATOMETRY; KERATOMILEUSIS; MALE; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ASTIGMATISM; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; LASERS, EXCIMER; MALE; MYOPIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REFRACTION, OCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 65249119683     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20090401-06     Document Type: Article

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