Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 1 , Pages 21-32 , January 2006

Aberrations induced in wavefront-guided laser refractive surgery due to shifts between natural and dilated pupil center locations

,Accepted 11 July 2005.

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 Supported by National Institutes of Health grants EY01319, EY07125, and EY04367 and a research grant from Bausch & Lomb and by the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Adaptive Optics, managed by the University of California at Santa Cruz under cooperative agreement No. AST-9876783.Drs. Porter, Yoon, MacRae, and Williams have served as consultants to Bausch & Lomb. The University of Rochester has licensed intellectual property to Bausch & Lomb and has a research contract with them. No other author has a financial interest in any product mentioned.Gary Gagarinas, Brenda Houtenbrink, Gina Crowley, Joseph Stamm, and Steven Schneider provided technical assistance.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2005.10.027

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 32, Issue 1 , Pages 21-32 , January 2006

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