Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 34, Issue 12 , Pages 2057-2062 , December 2008

Residual higher-order aberrations caused by clinically measured cyclotorsional misalignment or decentration during wavefront-guided excimer laser corneal ablation

  • Li Wang, MD, PhD
    • ,
  • Douglas D. Koch, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Douglas D. Koch, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, 6565 Fannin, NC205, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.

,Accepted 9 August 2008.

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 Dr. Koch is a consultant to Advanced Medical Optics. Dr. Wang does not have a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.

 Presented in part at the ASCRS Symposium on Cataract, IOL and Refractive Surgery, San Francisco, California, USA, March 2006.

 Supported in part by an unrestricted grant from Research to Prevent Blindness, New York, New York, USA.

PII: S0886-3350(08)00857-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2008.08.015

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 34, Issue 12 , Pages 2057-2062 , December 2008

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