Optical quality and visual discrimination capacity after myopic LASIK with a standard and aspheric ablation profile

Journal of Refractive Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 597-601

  Anera, Rosario G ^a   Castro, José J ^a   Jiménez, José R ^a   Villa, César ^b   Alarcón, Aixa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b Oculoplastic Surgery Unit   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ASPHERICITY; CORNEA CURVATURE; DISTURBANCE INDEX; EYE REFRACTION; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; KERATOMILEUSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OPTICAL QUALITY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q OPTIMIZED ALGORITHM; STREHL RATIO; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CORNEAL STROMA; HUMANS; KERATOMILEUSIS, LASER IN SITU; LASERS, EXCIMER; MYOPIA; REFRACTION, OCULAR; SURGICAL FLAPS; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052234413     PISSN: 1081597X     EISSN: 19382391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1081597X-20110303-01     Document Type: Article

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