Postsurgery corneal asphericity and spherical aberration due to ablation efficiency reduction and corneal remodelling in refractive surgeries

Eye

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1845-1850

  Kwon, Y ^a,b   Bott, S ^a  

^a Alcon Laboratories Inc   (United States)

^b Omega Photonics   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation efficiency; Clinical outcome; Corneal asphericity; Induced spherical aberration; Refractive surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORNEAL ASPHERICITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KERATOMETRY; LASER SURGERY; REFRACTIVE SURGERY; RETINA DETACHMENT; SIMULATOR; SPHERIC ABERRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

CORNEA; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REFRACTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 70349224008     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2008.356     Document Type: Article

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