Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 36, Issue 3 , Pages 389-395 , March 2010

Color discrimination by patients with different types of light-filtering intraocular lenses

Received 19 June 2009 ,Revised 15 August 2009 ,Accepted 22 September 2009.

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 Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 30672284.

PII: S0886-3350(09)01137-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2009.09.038

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 36, Issue 3 , Pages 389-395 , March 2010

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