Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 35, Issue 11 , Pages 1984-1994 , November 2009

Customized aspheric intraocular lenses calculated with real ray tracing

Received 14 April 2009 ,Revised 25 May 2009 ,Accepted 26 May 2009.

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

 Presented in part at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, May 2008.

 Supported by the Dr. Ernst und Wilma Müller Stiftung, Stuttgart, Germany.

 Katrin Petermeier, MD, and Peter Szurman, MD, University Eye Hospital Tübingen, acquired clinical data used for the calculations.

PII: S0886-3350(09)00756-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2009.05.053

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Volume 35, Issue 11 , Pages 1984-1994 , November 2009

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