Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 36, Issue 3 , Pages 437-441 , March 2010

Visual acuity and higher-order aberrations with wavefront-guided and wavefront-optimized laser in situ keratomileusis

Received 8 March 2009 ,Revised 31 August 2009 ,Accepted 14 September 2009.

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 Additional financial disclosures: Dr. Stulting is a consultant to Alcon, Inc., and Abbott Medical Optics.

 Supported in part by Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc. New York, New York, and the National Institutes of Health Core Grant P30 EYO6360, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

PII: S0886-3350(09)01122-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2009.09.031

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 36, Issue 3 , Pages 437-441 , March 2010

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