Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 28, Issue 2 , Pages 75-92 , June 2005

Wavefront technology: Past, present and future

  • W.N. Charman

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☆ Presented as the inaugural BCLA Pioneers Lecture, 25th November 2004.

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doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2005.02.003

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