Deviations of Lambert-Beer’s law affect corneal refractive parameters after refractive surgery
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Jiménez Cuesta, José Ramón; Rodríguez Marín, Francisco; González Anera, María Del Rosario; Jiménez Del Barco Jaldo, Luis MiguelEditorial
Optical Society of America
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Ablation of tissue Ophthalmology Lambert-Beer's law
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2006Referencia bibliográfica
Jiménez, J.R.; et al. Deviations of Lambert-Beer’s law affect corneal refractive parameters after refractive surgery. Optics Express, 14(12): 5411-5417 (2006). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/32718]
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This research was supported by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Spain (grant BFM2003-1492).Abstract
We calculate whether deviations of Lambert-Beer’s law, which regulates depth ablation during corneal ablation, significantly influence corneal refractive parameters after refractive surgery and whether they influence visual performance. For this, we compute a point-to-point correction on the cornea while assuming a non-linear (including a quadratic term) fit for depth ablation. Post-surgical equations for refractive parameters using a non-linear fit show significant differences with respect to parameters obtained from a linear fit (Lambert-Beer’s law). Differences were also significant for corneal aberrations. These results show that corneal-ablation algorithms should include analytical information on deviations from Lambert-Beer’s law for achieving an accurate eye correction.