Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 1 , Pages 33-44 , January 2006

Clinical comparison of 6 aberrometers Part 2: Statistical comparison in a test group

,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 our 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)00152-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2004.11.052

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 1 , Pages 33-44 , January 2006