American Journal of Ophthalmology
Volume 141, Issue 5 , Pages 833-839 , May 2006

Comparison of the IntraLase Femtosecond Laser and Mechanical Microkeratome for Laser In Situ Keratomileusis

,Accepted 16 December 2005.

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 This study was supported in part by grant 2005-049 from the Asan Institute for Life Sciences, Seoul, Korea.Geunyoung Yoon, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, provided algorithms to calculate Zernike coefficients according to pupil size.

PII: S0002-9394(05)01352-8

doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2005.12.032

American Journal of Ophthalmology
Volume 141, Issue 5 , Pages 833-839 , May 2006

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