Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 123-128 , June 2009

The use of the Ocular Response Analyser to determine corneal hysteresis in eyes before and after excimer laser refractive surgery

  • Sunil Shah

      Affiliations

    • Heart of England Foundation Trust, Solihull, UK
    • Ophthalmic Research Group, Aston University, Birmingham, UK
    • Midland Eye Institute, Birmingham, UK
    • ,
  • Mohammad Laiquzzaman

      Affiliations

    • Heart of England Foundation Trust, Solihull, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Midland Eye Institute, 50 Lode Lane, Solihull, West Midlands B91 2AW, UK. Tel.: +44 121 711 2020; fax: +44 121 711 4040.
    • ,
  • Ian Yeung

      Affiliations

    • Midland Eye Institute, Birmingham, UK
    • ,
  • Xueliang Pan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
    • ,
  • Cynthia Roberts

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology and Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

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doi: 10.1016/j.clae.2009.02.005

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 123-128 , June 2009

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