Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 35, Issue 7 , Pages 1239-1243 , July 2009

Wavy horizontal artifacts on optical coherence tomography line-scanning images caused by diffractive multifocal intraocular lenses

Received 19 December 2008 ,Revised 9 February 2009 ,Accepted 10 February 2009.

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 No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.

 Shinichi Ooki provided technical assistance with the optical coherence tomography examinations.

PII: S0886-3350(09)00374-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2009.04.016

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 35, Issue 7 , Pages 1239-1243 , July 2009

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