Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 31, Issue 6 , Pages 1114-1127 , June 2005

Clinical comparison of 6 aberrometers. Part 1: Technical specifications

,Accepted 12 November 2004.

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 Sponsored by an ESCRS grant (2002) and a 2002 grant of the Belgian Fund for Research in Ophthalmology (2002).No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.The authors thank the companies—Nidek, Bausch & Lomb, Zeiss, WaveLight, and Tracey—and their Belgian representatives for temporarily providing their aberrometers for their study. The authors thank Michael Mrochen for the lending of the MultiSpot aberrometer and Andrei Larichev and Nikita Irochnikov for providing the necessary technical assistance.

PII: S0886-3350(05)00151-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2004.11.051

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 31, Issue 6 , Pages 1114-1127 , June 2005

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