Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 35, Issue 7 , Pages 1174-1180 , July 2009

Back-calculation to model strategies for pretreatment adjustment of the ablation sphere in myopic wavefront laser in situ keratomileusis

Received 29 October 2008 ,Revised 26 February 2009 ,Accepted 4 March 2009.

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 Steven Morton is a paid employee of Abbott Medical Optics UK. No other author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.

 Charlie Campbell, PhD, Abbott Medical Optics, Milpitas, California, USA, described the effective blur concept.

PII: S0886-3350(09)00368-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2009.03.016

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 35, Issue 7 , Pages 1174-1180 , July 2009