Technique for measuring laser in situ keratomileusis flap thickness using the IntraLase laser
Accepted 26 July 2005.
Measurement of laser in situ keratomileusis flap thickness is required to estimate residual bed thickness. Historically, flap thickness has been assumed, estimated based on microkeratome head labeling, guessed based on flap handling characteristics, or calculated by subtraction pachymetry. We describe a method for measuring flap thickness before actual flap elevation using the IntraLase laser.
From the Eisner Laser Center, Macon, Georgia, USA
Reprint requests to Richard A. Eisner, MD, Eisner Laser Center, Ophthalmology, 125 Plantation Centre Drive, Macon, Georgia 31210, USA.
Neither author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.
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