Today’s Practice Refractive Fundamentals

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  • Kathryn Masselam
  • Jonathan H. Talamo
  • Glauco Reggiani
چکیده

SEPTEMBER 2010 CATARACT & REFRACTIVE SURGERY TODAY EUROPE 85 Editor’s note: In last month’s Fundamentals column, Kathryn Masselam Hatch, MD; and Jonathan H. Talamo, MD, provided a comprehensive overview of excimer laser technology. Drs. Hatch and Talamo discussed basic concepts such as fluence, beam profile, ablation pattern, and eye tracking and registration to help readers optimize excimer laser refractive surgical outcomes. This month, Glauco Reggiani Mello, MD, and Ronald R. Krueger, MD, MSE, recount the evolution of excimer laser technology over the past 25 years, leading to LASIK and modern refractive surgery.

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تاریخ انتشار 2010