Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 134-143 , May 2007

Development of a near activity visual questionnaire to assess accommodating intraocular lenses

  • Navneet Gupta

      Affiliations

    • Ophthalmic Research Group, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK
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  • James S Wolffsohn

      Affiliations

    • Ophthalmic Research Group, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK
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  • Shehzad A. Naroo

      Affiliations

    • Ophthalmic Research Group, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 121 204 4142; fax: +44 121 204 4048.
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  • Leon N. Davies

      Affiliations

    • Ophthalmic Research Group, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK
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  • George A. Gibson

      Affiliations

    • Ophthalmic Research Group, School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK
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  • Sunil Shah

      Affiliations

    • Midland Eye Institute, 50 Lode Lane, Solihull B91 2AW, UK

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☆ This paper was presented as a free paper at the 13th Annual Congress of the British Society for Refractive Surgery on 1–2 July 2006, Oxford UK, and at the XXIV Congress of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons on 9–13 September 2006, London UK.

PII: S1367-0484(07)00008-2

doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2007.01.004

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 30, Issue 2 , Pages 134-143 , May 2007

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