Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 1389-1395 , August 2009

Effects of spherical aberration on visual acuity at different contrasts

Received 19 November 2008 ,Revised 4 March 2009 ,Accepted 18 March 2009.

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 Jing Li, MD, and Ying Xiong, MD, PhD, contributed equally to this work.

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

 Presented in part at the ASCRS Symposium on Cataract, IOL and Refractive Surgery, Chicago, Illinois, April 2008.

 Supported by a grant (60438030) from National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National “863” Program of China (2006AA02Z4D2).

 Drs. Orla Casey and Michael Morgan critically read the manuscript.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2009.03.033

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 35, Issue 8 , Pages 1389-1395 , August 2009

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